Late last week, I was going through Twitter looking for any crumbs of information I could find

on when my kid might be able to get a COVID vaccine.

He's 18 months old, he was born in the pandemic.

It's been his entire life, even though he's totally unaware of it.

We don't let him do much.

With Omicron all around us and pediatric hospitalizations increasing, I've honestly gotten

more and more anxious, both that he'll get sick and that our finely tuned balance of childcare

and work will come crashing down.

Back in November, kids who were 5 to 11 became eligible for a COVID shot.

Today's a monumental day in the course of the pandemic and one that many of us have been very eager to be.

It seemed like maybe the littlest kids would be next soon and I got my hopes up.

But then November turned into December and then January, which is how I found myself

searching Twitter Friday night.

Another parent pointed me to a new story from Wisconsin where part of Moderna's pediatric vaccine

trial is happening.

Dr. William Hartman is leading UW Health Moderna vaccine trials for kids ages six months to four

years old and says it recently expanded.

The FDA a couple weeks ago had asked nationally that the population of kids be expanded by a

couple hundred kids and so we've all added more participants into the trial.

That little tidbit that the FDA had asked for more kids in the trial likely means the timeline

is slower and that a vaccine for little kids is even further away.

That news was devastating.

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