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hello again, everyone, thank you so much for joining me, i m fredricka whitfield. at any moment, the cdc s vaccine advisers will announce their decision on covid-19 vaccines for children, 6 months to 5 years old. pfizer and moderna are seeking authorization for their vaccines. if approved young children could begin beginning vaccinated as soon as next week. are we hearing anything more about how close they re getting? reporter: they are getting closer. they have been taking questions for an hour, and it sounds like several more questions came up. they were supposed to vote a half hour ago but they re going to take as many questions and time as need be to get through everything. after two and a half years of all of us dealing with covid, this is the last sort of big piece, you know, the last tool in the tool box to get all americans covered by vaccines and hopefully sort of squelch this pandemic to something near an end. several questions that they have been centering ....
Early as next week. i think it remains to be seen. i m really hopeful that distribution would be good. this is the last age group waiting to be vaccinated. so there s already a track record of delivering vaccines to practices, to pharmacies t, to hospitals. i think the challenge in this age group, some places may not feel as comfortable vaccinating smaller children. they may not have the equipment orset up to do that. from that perspective, there may be limitations on where children can get the vaccine. children 5 to 11 were the previous group to become eligible for the vaccines in november. only about 29% of those children are fully vaccinated. the percentage of vaccinations goes down among younger children. are you worried that parents are taking too much of a wait and see approach? i think it s a little bit ....