Some of the youngest Americans started getting COVID-19 vaccines on June 20, after U.S. authorities authorized and recommended the shots.
The under-5 population was unable to get a COVID vaccine since the beginning of the pandemic. Now, all Americans except for those younger than 6 months of age can.
Some parents had been waiting for the clearance and immediately took their children to get a shot.
“He’s never really played with another kid inside before,” McKenzie Pack of Lexington, South Carolina, told the Associated Press after her 3-year-old son got a Moderna dose. “This will be a really big change for our family.”…