As the provincial government works to finalize its plan to roll out the COVID-19 vaccine to children between the ages of 5 and 11, Premier Doug Ford says he understands that some parents with younger children are hesitant about immunizing their kids
"I'm going to leave that up to the parent when it comes to five to 11-year-olds. Do we want to get them vaccinated? Yes. But there are some parents that are vaccinated, they are a little hesitant at the age of five or six. I get it," Ford said at a news conference in Kanata on Tuesday afternoon.
Public health experts have spent the past several weeks outlining the benefits of vaccinating younger children but urge parents who are hesistant to seek out trusted sources of information to answer questions they may have. Pfizer-BioNtech formally requested approval for its pediatric COVID-19 vaccine from Health Canada earlier this month and the application is currently under review.
About 84 per cent of eligible Ontario residents are fully immunized and about 88 per cent have at least one dose. Children under the age of 12 make up more than 10 per cent of the province's population.
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