Demand still high for kids’ COVID vaccine

Kansas doctors are encouraging families to get young children vaccinated against COVID-19 as numbers rise to levels not seen since February.

West Virginia lawmakers ruled earlier this week that private and parochial school students need not get vaccinated against many childhood diseases including polio, measles and chicken pox. The decision has many health authorities worried, especially due to an uptick in U.S. measles cases. Photo by (Getty Images)

by NOAH TABORDA, Kansas Reflector

Published: July 19, 2022

Kansas doctors are encouraging families to get young children vaccinated against COVID-19 as numbers rise to levels not seen since February.

TOPEKA — As COVID-19 case numbers approach levels not seen since February, Kansas doctors are encouraging parents to get their children vaccinated.

A month removed from the vaccine receiving emergency use authorization for children younger than 5, Danielle Johnson, a clinical psychologist with the University of Kansas Health System, said many pediatricians’ offices are running out of the shot. She says this is a good sign for demand and critical with more children being infected.

Johnson’s three children, including her 5-year-old daughter, have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

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