Only one month after the Food and Drug Administration approved the Covid-19 vaccine for very young children, Tuesday by Kaiser Family FoundationHas monitored vaccine attitudes throughout the pandemic.
The majority of parents surveyed said they believed the vaccine was at greater risk to their children than the coronavirus itself.
For children in the age group of 6 months to 4 years, parental anxiety has so far resulted in little administration of Covid Shot trickles. Only 2.8 percent of those children have been shot since June 18, when they qualified. Individual analysis of federal vaccine data.. By comparison, 18.5% of children aged 5 to 11 years who have been on Covid Shot since October were vaccinated at the same time as the shot deployment.
According to a new survey, 43% of parents with children under the age of 5 say they “never” get vaccinated. About 27% said they would “wait and see” and another 13% said they would vaccinate their children “only when needed”. Even parents vaccinated with Covid said they would not give permission to their youngest child.
A new analysis of parents’ views comes from a significant slowdown in vaccine intake in older children. To date, only 40 percent of children between the ages of 5 and 11 have been vaccinated. In a new study, 37% of parents say they “never” get the Covid vaccine for their children in that age group.
The main concerns of the parents were the potential side effects of the vaccine, its relative novelty, and the lack of sufficient research they felt. Many parents said their children were ready to risk getting infected with Covid instead of being vaccinated to prevent it.
Childhood vaccination specialists said parents that the number of Covid cases surged again, at times when it was expected to worsen in the colder months, and as potential newer coronavirus variants could be more dangerous. He said he was wary of his hesitation.
The majority of children who bring Covid get over it easily, but “some children then become very very ill and some die,” said Patricia A. of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases. Stinchfield Chairman said. She was not involved in the Kaiser study.
Nurse practitioner Stinchfield, who coordinated vaccination with Children’s Minnesota, a children’s hospital system in St. Paul and Minneapolis, added that it was unpredictable how children would eat at Covid. “There is no marker for that,” she said. “Half of the children infected with severe Covid are healthy children and have no underlying condition. So,” I’m going to skip this vaccine for my child. I’m not worried about Covid. ” The idea is to really take risks. “
This latest report is based on an online and telephone survey of 1,847 adults (of which 471 are children under the age of 5) from June 7th to June 17th. The error margin was plus or minus 3 percentage points, plus or minus, for the entire sample. 8 percentage points for parents with children under 5 years old.
Perhaps not surprisingly, Republican parents say they are three times more likely to vaccinate their children than Democratic parents, and party disparities were particularly noticeable when it comes to vaccination of children.
The majority of parents said they felt confused about information from the federal government about vaccines for children. Still, 70% said they hadn’t discussed the shot with the pediatrician yet. Only 27% of parents considering the vaccine said they would promise to have the conversation.
Parents who may tend to give their children Covid shots said lack of access was a significant barrier, with black and Hispanic parents expressing concern more than white parents. Approximately 44% of black parents were worried that they would need to take a break from work to vaccinate their children or take care of them if they had side effects. .. Forty-five percent of Hispanic parents with young children said they were worried about finding a reliable place for the shot, and about one-third were afraid to have to pay.
Stinchfield said he understands their concerns. Her daughter had to quit her job to be vaccinated by Stinchfield’s grandchildren, aged 1 and 3. Stinchfield went to the clinic with them. “The message to the clinic is to make vaccines for children available at night and on weekends,” she said.
Did her grandchildren have any side effects? No, Stinchfield said with a laugh. “They felt so good that we put them in a small children’s pool,” she said. “And now my granddaughter got a tanned line from Band-Aid from a shot of her foot.”
