Hospitalizations for kids under 5 were four times higher than those for other children. how effective will the vaccines be for keeping little kids out of the hospital? as the data here is really clear, for every million doses of vaccine administered, we re going to keep about 250 kids out of the hospital. that is terrific. again, as you re seeing, during this latest wave, we saw more of those littles, the 0 to 4-year-olds being hospitalized on a relative basis compared to prior waves. that s for two reasons. first, omicron is more transmissible, so more kids were getting infected, and second, we have vaccinated so much of the rest of this population. once we can get vaccines in the arms of little kids, we ll see that number of hospitalizations for 0 to 4-year-olds drop as well. a michigan parent of a 3-year-old tells cnn, quote, our best pathway to get back to normal is this vaccine, unquote. how soon can parents start taking their kids to crowded ....