More than half of surveyed parents said they were likely to follow the advice of their child’s primary care physician when it came to COVID-19 vaccination, according to results published in Academic Pediatrics.
COVID-19 vaccines are now authorized and recommended for children aged as young as 6 months in the United States, although vaccine uptake for children aged younger than 11 years in the U.S. has been slow, and prior research has shown that nearly 25% of U.S. parents were vaccine hesitant before the pandemic.
“Surveys on parental COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy have assessed risk