Should NJ Kids Under 12 Get The COVID-19 Vaccine? Take Our Survey

NEW JERSEY —Federal regulators approved coronavirus vaccines for kids between the ages of 5 and 11 and shots are starting to go into little arms.

Thus far, 9,116 children between the ages of 5 and 11 have received their first dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine that has been approved for that age group, state officials said.

This amounts to 1.2 percent of the 760,000 children ages 5 to 11 in New Jersey who have begun to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, New Jersey Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli said during a news conference on Monday.

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That approval has set off another rush by parents to get their kids vaccinated, as they did in May when COVID-19 vaccines were approved for use in children between the ages of 12 and 15 in May. But it will also set off another round of debates over whether parents should get their kids vaccinated.

As we did in May, when vaccines were approved for older kids, Patch is asking readers where they stand on children being vaccinated against the coronavirus. We'll close the survey below at next week and report the results.

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The survey below is not meant to be a scientific poll, with random sampling and margins of error, but is meant only to gauge the sentiments of our readers in an informal way.