When Will Kids Get COVID Vaccines?

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March 30, 2021

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Doctors Chase Treatment for Kids Threatened by Dangerous COVID-19 Syndrome Physicians are comparing ad hoc solutions for reducing massive inflammation that can cripple organs By Robin Lloyd | September 2020

QUOTE OF THE DAY "If we think about the fact that [people] 18 and under actually make up 25 percent of the population of the United States and probably a bigger proportion of the world population, we really need to make sure that children are part of the population that are immune by vaccine." Yvonne Maldonado, pediatric infectious disease physician at the Stanford University School of Medicine

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