Cassandra Szklarski
Amanda Parsons, a registered nurse on staff at the Northwood Care facility, prepares a dose of the Moderna vaccine in Halifax on January 11, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
March 17, 2021 - 2:43 PM
TORONTO - By most accounts, Canadian kids are not expected to receive a COVID-19 vaccine this year, let alone before the new school year in September.
But a select few may be able to receive an early dose through clinical trials expected to launch in various locales.
Moderna said this week it wants to recruit an unspecified number of Canadian children aged six months to 12 years for upcoming trials of its COVID-19 vaccine, while Johnson & Johnson is poised to run trials for its vaccine with 12- to 17-year-olds.