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COVID: How many parents will actually vaccinate their kids? The early data makes a clear case for vaccinating adolescents. But it's also true that humans have an extremely difficult time making a medical choice on another person's behalf — and sometimes default to doing nothing. Parents are likely facing a big choice soon: To vaccinate or not to vaccinate "My child is not a lab rat." The words are from a 25-year-old woman, Susan, and they're in reference to her three-year-old twin girls. While she speaks to DW, her eyes flicker between them as they begin to meander away — first together,...

The early data makes a clear case for vaccinating adolescents. But it's also true that humans have an extremely difficult time making a medical choice on another person's behalf — and sometimes default to doing nothing.

Dec. 17, 2020 7:09 am ET BERLIN—When Covid-19 swept across Europe this spring, Germany gained plaudits for its handling of the pandemic. Now authorities fear they are losing control of the virus. Germany registered one of the lowest death rates from the disease in the world in the first half of the year. It had fewer infections than most of its large neighbors and its hospitals never ran out of emergency care beds, factors that led to the government enacting one of the mildest lockdowns in Europe. Now, with infections in France and Italy lower than their mid-November peak, daily...