White House: About 900,000 kids got COVID-19 shots in week 1

By ZEKE MILLER and MIKE STOBBE
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — About 900,000 kids aged 5-11 will have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in their first week of eligibility, the White House said Wednesday. Final clearance for the shots was granted by federal regulators on Nov. 2, with the first doses to kids beginning in some locations the following day. Now nearly 20,000 pharmacies, clinics and physicians’ offices are administering the doses and the Biden administration estimates that by the end of Wednesday more than 900,000 of the kid doses will have been administered. Kids who begin the two-dose regimen by the end of next week will have full protection from the vaccines by Christmas.