Regulators should reach a decision about whether to approve Canada’s first COVID-19 vaccine for infants and preschoolers in coming weeks, as the United States prepares to roll out tot-sized shots.

The advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention unanimously decided that coronavirus vaccines should be made available to children as young as 6 months, offering protection from hospitalizations, deaths and possible long-term complications that are still not clearly understood.

U.S. regulators on Friday authorized the first COVID-19 shots for infants and preschoolers, paving the way for vaccinations to begin next week.

Israel’s 5-11 yo booster decision is failing. 1 week after announcement, “The demand is close to zero, less than 300 children came to get jabbed.”
“It’s not disturbing,” says the reporter, “because it has no meaning in preventing the current (6th) wave.”
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Why then, why? pic.twitter.com/jxdK3DusMT

— Efrat Fenigson (@efenigson) June 21, 2022

Will parents be eager to get their youngest vaccinated? By some estimates, three-quarters of all U.S. children have already been infected, and only about 30% of children aged 5 to 11 have gotten vaccinated since Pfizer’s shots opened to them last November.

Inject your children, and then wonder why. Don’t play roulette with their lives. Don’t be manipulated by the government and media. Do not take the shot, or at least spare your children from a life full of severe health conditions or even death. #DontDoIt pic.twitter.com/SM5PPWliGR

— THE LINE CANADA (@thelinecanada) June 21, 2022

Canada has yet to authorize a vaccine for its nearly two million children under five.