Children in British Columbia between five and 11 years old are eligible to start receiving a pediatric COVID-19 vaccine starting next week. About 350,000 children are eligible to receive the Health Canada-approved Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said Tuesday. Immunization clinics for children across B.C. will start administering the pediatric vaccine on Monday, she said. “We have some light we are going to talk about today in being able to protect younger children now against COVID-19,” Henry told a news conference. COVID-19 data from the B.C. Centre for Disease Control from Nov. 16 to 22 shows disease cases among children between five and 11 years old are starting to decrease, with the number now falling below 500 for the week and no children sent to hospital, she said. The arrival of the pediatric vaccine will protect more children and families, Henry said.
