People have said that COVID is less deadly in children. That is true, if you’re comparing the elderly versus little kids. But if you look at various vaccine preventable diseases in young children, COVID is actually quite deadly. They can also get a unique and severe form of COVID called MIS-C, which stands for multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. Over the course of the pandemic, we’ve seen 20,000 children between the ages of six months and five years hospitalized for COVID. We’ve had about 200 deaths from COVID in that age group. So yes, we are strongly recommending that all children from six months and older get vaccinated.
