>"About 17 million children in the age group are newly eligible for the vaccine, the biggest indication yet that life could soon return to something more like normal for American teenagers."
"Parents deciding whether to vaccinate their children must weigh a number of factors at a time when coronavirus cases nationally have declined to their lowest levels since September, but children make up a growing portion of infections.
Children are far less likely than adults to be hospitalized with the coronavirus and are extremely unlikely to die from Covid-19. There have been at least 306 confirmed child deaths from Covid-19 in the United States, out of an estimated 3.8 million known cases, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics."