Vaccine uptake slow as cases among youngest children rise
ATLANTA — Sesame Street’s Elmo, who is 3½, recently got his COVID-19 vaccine.
The littlest muppet’s shot was intended to spark interest in vaccinating the nation’s youngest children against COVID-19, after recent federal approval of the shots for those ages 6 months to 5. But interest in the vaccine remains low in Georgia, even as cases among children under 5 statewide have been rising for eight weeks. The youngest age group is the only population other than those 70 and over to show such a trend, according to Amber Schmidtke, a public health researcher.
