The wait to get COVID vaccines in tiny arms is over. White House COVID-19 response coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha talks with Ayesha Rascoe about the vaccine rollout for young children.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky has cleared the way for the roll out of vaccines for children five years and under as early as this coming week.
CDC advisers are recommending the use of two separate COVID-19 vaccines for the youngest children made by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, paving the way for vaccine rollout as early as next week.
The FDA has given emergency approval for the use COVID-19 vaccines on kids as young as 6 months of age. Now, the decision moves to advisers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Florida state officials won't order doses of the COVID vaccine for children under five years old. It's the only state that hasn't pre-ordered the new vaccines, which they did for prior versions.
A school in southeastern Massachusetts latches onto a novel program that uses canines to sniff out COVID on surfaces. The idea is to help protect kids from the virus and keep the school open.
Illinois' family service agency is routinely keeping wards of the state in Chicago's juvenile jails beyond their sentences — because of a lack of where to put them.