Too young for the vaccine, too fidgety for masks. How do we keep toddlers safe?
I’m not alone in my feelings. Other parents of toddlers I’ve spoken to have expressed the same helplessness. In fact, that feeling is why Dr. Nhu Thao Nguyen Galvan, M.D., a transplant surgeon at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, enrolled her two toddlers in vaccine trials earlier this year.
Her youngest son, Nathan, 21 months, received two doses of the Pfizer vaccine. But Galvan doesn’t know if her oldest, Charlie, 3 years old, was in the placebo group or the treatment group of his trial.Experts say there’s a chance the vaccine could be approved for children 2 and up as soon as the end of this year. But, as you may have guessed, it’s a complicated process to get there. Important ethical considerations have to be made when it comes to using children in clinical trials.
So what can parents of unvaccinated, unmasked kids do until then? Perhaps the burden shouldn’t fall entirely on parents. Dr. Ayman El-Mohandes, M.D., dean of the Graduate School of Public Health at the City University of New York in New York City, said that society as a whole needs to start thinking about toddlers the same way it was the elderly at the beginning of the pandemic.
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