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Federal health officials hailed Wednesday's first shots for kids ages 5-11 as a major breakthrough after more than 18 months of illness, hospitalizations, deaths and disrupted education.

Many parents have been anxiously waiting for the moment their 5- to 11-year-olds could be inoculated. That day has arrived.

Their opposition arrives amid a COVID-19 surge fueled by the highly transmissible Delta variant, which has seen a growing number of young people testing positive for the virus.

Kids should get their nutrient needs met via food first.

Print Nearly every phase of California’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been met with a mixture of enthusiasm and angst. But few groups have been as eager — or as concerned — as the latest to wrestle with the availability of vaccines: parents. The state on Thursday expanded eligibility for COVID-19 vaccines to adolescents from the ages of 12 to 15. In Los Angeles and many other counties, people in that age group must be accompanied by or receive consent from a parent or guardian to receive their shot. Some parents are jumping at the chance to protect their kids from COVID-19, and from its...