Younger adolescents get ready to receive Covid-19 vaccine

MISSION, Kansas: Parents, schools and vaccine clinics rushed to begin inoculating younger adolescents Tuesday after US regulators endorsed Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for children as young as 12, a decision seen as a breakthrough in allowing classroom instruction to resume safely around the country.

A handful of cities started offering shots to children ages 12 to 15 less than a day after the Food and Drug Administration gave the vaccine emergency use authorization for that age group. Most communities were waiting for a federal advisory committee that meets Wednesday to sign off on the move, while anxious families called clinics and pharmacies to ask about the soonest appointments.