Only about half of adolescents ages 12 to 17 are fully vaccinated, compared to 70% of adults. Since then, adolescent vaccinations have flagged considerably, to just 32,000 getting their first shots last week. “There was an initial burst,” said Shannon Stokley of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.īut then the number dropped steadily for months, interrupted only briefly in early August as the delta variant surged and parents prepared to send children back to school.
The next week, it rose even further, to 1.6 million.
In the first week after vaccines for that age group were authorized in May, the number of adolescents getting a first shot jumped by roughly 900,000, according to an American Academy of Pediatrics review of federal data. They note polling data suggests only a fraction of parents have planned to get their kids shots immediately, and they suspect the trend will play out like it did earlier this year when kids ages 12 to 15 were authorized to get shots. He answers all our questions about the COVID vaccines being approved for administration to children.Ī initial surge in demand for vaccinations was expected from parents who have been waiting for the chance to protect their younger kids, especially before the holidays.īut some experts say that demand could begin to recede in only a matter of weeks. "I can't wait to see those kids with their bright, smiling shining faces again," Patel says. Kids who get the COVID vaccine should be able to go maskless in school, says Dr.
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