Vaccine wait is longer for children
Tara Bahrampour, The Washington Post
Feb. 15, 2021
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Amelie Gueorguieva and her mother, Anna Gueorguieva, pose near Bancroft Elementary School in the District of Columbia on Feb. 4, 2021.Washington Post photo by Matt McClain
WASHINGTON - Anna Gueorguieva had big plans for 2021: After she and her 10-year-old daughter Amelie got the coronavirus vaccine, they would visit Gueorguieva s parents in Bulgaria and maybe also travel through Asia. In the fall, Amelie would return to school for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
But when Gueorguieva, a World Bank senior economist who lives in the District of Columbia, asked her doctor when children in D.C. would be immunized, she learned that there are no vaccines yet available for kids her daughter s age, and none on the horizon.