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Kids aren't just littler adults – here's why they need their own clinical trials for a COVID-19 vaccine

  • Written by Judy Martin, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh
Kids aren't just littler adults – here's why they need their own clinical trials for a COVID-19 vaccineThe freedom of going mask-free is still a ways off for kids under age 12. Juan Monino/E+ via Getty Images

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 traveling, eating in...

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