28 million US children between the ages of five and 11 may soon be in line to receive Covid jabs.
Paediatric doctors could soon find themselves on the front lines of a US government plan to get some 28 million school-aged children in line for their coronavirus jabs.
Among those between five and 11 years old, there have been about 1.8 million cases confirmed in the US, according to the CDC. Fewer than two hundred have died, and most of those had underlying medical conditions. Dr Versalovic estimates at least 1,500 children have been diagnosed since the beginning of the pandemic with the virus at TCH, the largest children's hospital in the US. "No age group has been spared," he said.
"I am opposed to rolling these vaccines out to all children in a one size fits all model," she said. "The vast majority of children already have mild cases."
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