CDC Official: Low Child COVID Vax Uptake ‘A Sad Public Health Failure’

Infectious disease experts and pediatricians say misconceptions about COVID-19's severity in children and roadblocks at pediatricians’ offices have contributed to low vaccine uptake among children, even as the White House pushes for parents to get their kids vaccinated for coronavirus. Low vaccine supply and an opt-in approach to COVID-19 vaccines at pediatricians’ offices have served as barriers to vaccine uptake among children, Ruth Link-Gilles, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention epidemiologist, said during a Thursday (Oct. 20) webinar hosted...