The long-awaited COVID-19 vaccine for children age 5 to 11 could be just a few short weeks away
came out that said that condition is way more common in COVID than the vaccines,” said Muthulingam.
As an infectious-disease physician, Muthulingam said she plans to vaccinate her children, ages four and one, as soon as she is able, as long as the approval process goes as expected. “I see how bad COVID is every day. I want to protect not only my children but the other children who may or may not be able to benefit from the protection of the vaccine,” she said—including kids with autoimmune disease or cancer or organ transplant patients.
Will kids get the same severe-flu-like symptoms that some adults developed after their COVID-19 shots? The data is not yet conclusive, as Pfizer is thus far the only pharmaceutical company to report data on its pediatric vaccine. But Muthulingam said doctors estimate that kids will not develop the same severe adverse reaction to the shot that some of their parents did. Pfizer found that kids 5 to 12 only need one-third of the dose that adults receive—“both because they are smaller but also because they have immune systems that learn faster with less stimulus,” Muthulingam said.
Muthulingam also weighs the possibility of a reaction against the multiple “nasty illnesses” that kids routinely battle at school and day care. “Part of socializing your child is training their immune system,” she said. “There’s a reason we give a lot of vaccines in childhood: because they mount this really robust immune-system response in this developmental phase and it takes less to do it.
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