DENVER – Colorado has ordered small amounts of an FDA-approved monkeypox vaccine to protect health care workers and people directly exposed to the virus as cases of the disease continue to slowly increase across the state.

Around 100 doses of the JYNNEOS vaccine have been ordered by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) to vaccinate intermediate and high-risk health care workers and people considered to be at higher risk for catching monkeypox, said Scott Bookman, director of the CDPHE’s Division of Disease Control and Public Health Response.

Read more at the Denver Channel.

My daughter was only just starting to walk when the pandemic started. Now she’s almost four, and in all that time — growing up, going to school — she’s had no access to any protection from COVID-19 vaccines.

That changes this week. The White House has rolled out a plan for vaccinating the 19 million kids under 5 in the U.S., but if you’re just coming out of the holiday weekend trying to figure out where to find an appointment, you’re not alone.

Read more at NPR.

On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna’s coronavirus vaccines for children as young as 6 months. Shots should be available next week, which will provide some parents a long overdue tool to protect their children from covid.

It also will likely go unused by most American parents. This latter group, which will likely not seek out a coronavirus vaccine for their young children, deserves closer attention, not least of all because their hesitancy represents a change in how parents make health care decisions for their children. Rather than offering generic assurances that vaccines are important, those who hope to convince them to vaccinate their children will need to meet them where they are, respond to their actual concerns, and acknowledge the uncertainties alongside the benefits of these vaccines.

Read more at The Washington Post.