Low Demand for Young Kids’ COVID Vaccines is Alarming Doctors

States where parents have hesitated to inoculate their children against COVID-19 are now ordering fewer doses of the vaccines for children under 5 than others. Experts worry the low demand in states such as Alabama and Mississippi is a warning sign of the widening ambivalence among many parents about the benefits of vaccinating children against the virus and continuing politicization of health care. “Never before have we had a vaccine available for young children that has been in billions of people before it was given to a young child,” said Kawsar Talaat, a vaccine expert at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “The distrust in government, the distrust in public health and the distrust in science is growing and is very, very worrisome.” Read the article from Politico here.