

parents with children under 5, with an unweighted margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points. BERLIN Coronavirus vaccine line jumping in the United States has raised eyebrows and tested friendships.British Home Secretary Priti Patel has called people who skip ahead in the queue. The June 18-23, 2022, survey was conducted among a representative sample of 471 U.S. The survey shows these efforts have a ways to go: Parents of young children were no more likely than adults overall to say they’ve seen, read or heard “a lot” about the newly authorized pediatric shots, at roughly 1 in 5 each.

Asked why they plan to forgo vaccination for their kids, most wary parents cited concerns over the safety of the shots and the vaccine development process - issues that unvaccinated adults overall commonly cite as their own top reasons for skipping the vaccines.parents with children under 5 said they will definitely or probably get their kids vaccinated, while 13% said they probably won’t and 32% said they plan to skip the shots altogether. In the first days of the campaign, 42% of U.S. Moderna Inc.’s and Pfizer Inc.-BioNTech SE’s COVID-19 vaccines are now available for children as young as 6 months, but parents’ eagerness for the shots is muted so far.

Survey indicates vaccine uptake for babies, toddlers may be slow
