Small Needles, Short Lines and Few Tears: Biden's Plan to Vaccinate Young Children

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Times

WASHINGTON — The campaign to vaccinate young children in the United States against the coronavirus will not look like it did for adults. There will be no mass inoculation sites. Pediatricians will be enlisted to help work with parents. Even the vials — and the needles to administer doses — will be smaller.

Biden administration officials, anticipating that regulators will make the vaccines available to 5- to 11-year-olds in the coming weeks, are laying out plans to ensure that some 25,000 pediatric or primary care offices, thousands of pharmacies, and hundreds of school and rural health clinics will be ready to administer shots if the vaccine receives federal authorization.

The campaign aims to fulfill the unique needs of patients largely still in elementary school, while absorbing the lessons from the rollout of vaccines to other age groups.

This month, Pfizer and BioNTech asked the Food and Drug Administration to authorize emergency use of their vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds, a move that could help protect more than 28 million people in the United States. A meeting to discuss the authorization is set for Oct. 26, and an F.D.A. ruling could come in the days after, possibly clearing a path for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to make recommendations on a pediatric dose in early November.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/us/politics/kids-covid-vaccination.html

[IronLionZion]

1. Can't wait for the Q conspiracies on this one

since masks make kids easier to kidnap, the 5G tracking chips in the shots help to brainwash them into climate change social justice liberals.

[Freddie]

2. OMG I've already seen the comments

Ugh. My grandchildren (11 and 7) will be first in line at their pediatrician.

[70sEraVet]

3. A mother's instinct to protect her young is PRIMAL!

I honestly think this may be the breaking point for many anti-vax families.
Many wives have been quietly supportive of their Trump-following, Fauci-hating husbands. But when it comes to protecting her children, she'll march them down to their pediatricians without a second thought.

[drexelkathy]

4. I know more mothers

that are crunchy and have spread out childhood vaccines, gotten exemptions, etc. than fathers. In fact, I doubt many of the fathers could even tell you what vaccines are recommended for children and when.

It will be interesting to see whether the individuals that already don't like the standing CDC recommended vaccines for children decide to get this one.

And that crowd tends to be pretty liberally minded.

[Elessar Zappa]

8. The vast majority of anti-vaxxers

are maga right wingers. There is a hippie contingent on the left who hate vaccines but their number is much smaller.

[IronLionZion]

5. There are tons of anti-vax moms online who are loud and lead social media campaigns

Lots of antivax nurses are women. It is misguided to think they would be better on this issue because of their gender.

[drexelkathy]

6. Yup

It has been predominantly women that have been opposing childhood vaccines for years. I doubt that will change with this one.

[seta1950]

7. I think

That should of been done from the beginning for everyone, let the primary care physicians give the vaccine to their patients. There would of been way less drama I think