Parents, doctors and even Biden have voiced their concern about the growing number of children who are getting Covid-19. Kids have largely been spared the worst of the virus but cases have been rising. And without a vaccine, they remain vulnerable.
Dr. Bud Weidermann runs one of the US pediatric trial sites for a Covid-19 vaccine and the question coming from parents now isn't about the vaccine itself, but rather, what exactly is taking so long?
Eager parents want to vaccinate young children, and they want to do it now -- but no vaccine is authorized for people younger than 12.There's a 2,000-person waiting list to get into Wiedermann's Covid-19 vaccine trial at Chlldren's National Hospital, where he's an infectious disease specialist.'use strict';CNN.Videx=CNN.Videx || {};CNN.Videx.mobile={};CNN.INJECTOR.executeFeature.then {CNN.VideoPlayer.
Doctor weighs in on how safe it is to get kids back in school 02:16"I certainly understand where people are coming from. I think we're dealing with the Delta variant, which is a different ballgame than we've had before with Covid-19 and school is just around the corner," Wiedermann said."So things are starting to ramp up and parents and kids are getting anxious about that.
"If we're going to give our fighting chance to have a successful school year, we're going to need everyone who is vaccine eligible to get vaccinated and everybody masked," Dr. Peter Hotez, dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine told CNN on Monday.Physical distance, good ventilation, good hand hygiene and masks are all essential, especially as kids head back to school.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this story incorrectly identified the vaccine trial Dr. Katherine Luzuriaga is working on.
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