NIH Director: Children Under 12 Likely Won’t Be Able to Get COVID-19 Vaccine for Months

Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, appears before a Senate hearing to discuss vaccines, in Washington, on Sept. 9, 2020. Michael Reynolds/Pool/Getty Images

Children under the age of 12 will likely not be able to get a COVID-19 vaccine until late 2021 at the earliest, according to the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

“I gotta be honest, I don’t see approval for kids 5 to 11 coming much before the end of 2021,” Dr. Francis Collins, the NIH director, said on NPR.