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COVID vaccines and kids: five questions as trials begin

As the first clinical trials in young children start, here’s what scientists want to know.
  1. Ewen Callaway
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Parents are clamouring to enrol their kids in the first COVID-19 vaccine trials in young children. “Somebody told me they called and called and called until they were allowed to participate,” says Kawsar Talaat, an infectious-disease physician and vaccine scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. She is part of a trial that began testing the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine in children under 12 in late March.

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Nature 592, 670-671 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01061-4

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