CDC panel unanimously endorses Covid vaccines for littlest kids
President Biden responded to the announcement Saturday hailing it as a"monumental step forward."
“We want to say today that if you’re not going to immunize your children, we think that’s a misplaced concern and that you should immunize your children to save their lives," said committee member Dr. Sarah Long, a pediatrician at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. Among children 6 months old through age 4, there have been more than 2 million confirmed cases of Covid, more than 20,000 hospitalizations and more than 200 deaths, according to"This is an opportunity, which one doesn't get very often, to participate in preventing the death of young children," said committee member Dr. Beth Bell, a clinical professor in the department of global health at the University of Washington.