Kids Can Get Shot!

[canyonwalker]

Today the CDC approved the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for kids aged 5-11. Example coverage: Washington Post article, 2 Nov 2021. This is huge news because a key component of answering the question, "How do we get things back to normal?" is getting kids back to school. And a key part of doing that safely is immunizing schoolkids from the virus. Just like schoolkids are required to receive routine vaccinations against ten or more other diseases that were scourges in the past.