When Dr. Debra Langlois learned last week that federal regulators had delayed the review of Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine for children under 5, her reaction was just as visceral as any parent’s. “I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?’ Every day my daughter can’t be vaccinated, she’s at risk.”
Keeping young children safe has been an exhausting exercise for parents throughout the coronavirus pandemic. And many parents are eager to get their littlest ones vaccinated, said Dr. Langlois, who is a pediatrician at the University of Michigan Health C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital and who has two young children, one of whom is under 5.
When the Food and Drug Administration seemed close to authorizing two shots for infants and toddlers, their last minute waffling only added to parents’ mental fatigue. Here’s how to make sense of what happened and what it may mean for your family.
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