Millions of children have been infected with the virus that causes COVID-19.While this is a small number compared with the more than 1 million deaths in the U.S., for those families, their world will never be the same. As of mid-April 2023, almost 1,800 children 18 years of age or younger have died from COVID-19.Most healthcare providers agree that the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks for our youngest family members:
As parents weigh the relative risk and benefits of getting their youngest children vaccinated against COVID-19, some wonder about the need for their child to get a relatively new vaccine when the disease doesn’t seem too bad in most children.
