Araceli Martínez Ortega | La Opinión
Grace Lomelí, a mother of a one-year-old boy of one year and two months old, says that as long as her son cannot speak and express himself, she will not give him the covid-19 vaccine.
“I don’t rule out giving it to him in the future, but when he knows how to say what hurts and if the vaccine gives him any side effects.”
Many Latino parents are still reluctant to vaccinate their younger children against covid-19, even though as of June 2022, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave an emergency authorization for the use of Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine in children 6 months to 5 years old, and the Moderna vaccine for children 6 months to 6 years old.
But Latino children are not the only under-vaccinated children; statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), released in late January, indicate that in the United States, children in general are the least vaccinated of any other age group.
Less than 10% of eligible children have received their up-to-date booster vaccination and more than 90% of children under 5 years of age are not fully vaccinated.
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