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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Melody Schreiber

US Covid-19 vaccine rollout for under-fives must overcome hesitancy

Joe Biden holds a young girl during a visit to a Covid-19 vaccination clinic hosted offering vaccinations to children under age five, in Washington last week.
Joe Biden holds a young girl during a visit to a clinic hosted offering Covid-19 vaccinations to children under age five, in Washington last week. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

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.

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