PITTSBURGH : Now that two-thirds of all adults in the United States have received at least one dose of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine as of mid-July 2021, life seems to be returning to some semblance of pre-pandemic times.
People are again travelling, eating in restaurants with friends, attending in-person gatherings and flocking to movie theatres and Major League baseball games.
Yet for parents of children under the age of 12, who are not yet eligible for COVID-19 vaccines, there is still no collective sigh of relief.
Many parents have concerns about the upcoming school year and the uncertainty surrounding the delta variant. Clinical research studies of the mRNA-based vaccines for children under 12 are ongoing, and authorization of a vaccine for