For some American families, it was a much-anticipated and badly needed victory: Covid vaccines for children under five began rolling out in the US last week.
“I’ve already been waiting a year and a half since I got my first dose, and that’s been intolerable,” says Dr Roby Bhattacharyya, an infectious diseases doctor at Massachusetts general hospital and parent of a four-year-old who received his first dose of the Pfizer vaccine on Tuesday.