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10:18 PM ET Tuesday November 2 2021
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/02/health/covid-19-vaccine-children-acip/index.html ---
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Tuesday
evening she was endorsing a recommendation
to vaccinate children ages 5-11 against Covid-19,
clearing the way for immediate vaccination of the
youngest age group yet in the United States.
"CDC now expands vaccine recommendations to
about 28 million children in the United States in
this age group and allows providers to begin vac-
cinating them as soon as possible," the agency
said in a statement.
... Earlier Tuesday, CDC's independent vaccine ad-
visers voted 14-0 in favor of the child-sized doses
of vaccine for the younger kids.
... President Joe Biden weighed in, calling the deci-
sion a turning point in the battle against the pan-
demic.
"It will allow parents to end months of anxious worry-
ing about their kids, and reduce the extent to which
children s