When Can Kids and Teens Begin Receiving the COVID-19 Vaccine?

When Can Kids and Teens, Begin Receiving the COVID-19 Vaccine?.

To date, the number of fully vaccinated Americans has exceeded 44 million.

Currently, COVID-19 vaccines have been authorized only for people who are age 16 or older.

With anxious parents hoping to return to some form of normalcy, Moderna has begun clinical trials of its vaccine for children.

Johnson & Johnson will also begin trials of its vaccine for children this month.

[Clinical trials for children are] happening because all parents want to protect their kids, Dr. Steve Plimpton, KidCOVE Study, via CNN.

While Dr. Anthony Fauci has stated that COVID-19 vaccines for children will likely not be available until 2022.

Other researchers speculate that they could be available as early as November.

Regardless, while parents and teachers will be vaccinated by the time school starts in the fall, .

COVID-19 vaccinations for young students will not be mandatory