“When will children be able to get the COVID vaccine?”

No one outside the company itself really knows the answer to your question. Drugs and vaccines are almost always tested in adults first and then tested in teenagers, then later in younger children. The companies that make the vaccines are studying their safety and efficacy in children now; when they have results, they will present them to the FDA and attempt to get an EUA (“Emergency Use Authorization”) for the vaccines in children. As soon as they get that authorization, they will begin to vaccinate children. Since nobody except the companies themselves know exactly how far along they are in the studies, nobody can tell you exactly when they will be approved for children. If I had to guess, I’d say maybe in late summer of this year, but it could be a little earlier or perhaps even a little later.

Randall Fisher, M.D.