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On Monday 5/10/2021, the US Food and Drug Administration announced it was expanding Pfizer’s emergency use authorization for its Covid-19 vaccine to include 12-15-year-olds. Previously its vaccine was authorized only for people 16 and older. Expanding the authorization opens up vaccination to another 5% of the US population. Last week, President Joe Biden said that as soon as the FDA authorization happened, thousands of federal pharmacy sites across the country would be ready to vaccinate this age group. Biden added that the goal was to make vaccination as easy as possible -- so if teens were moving from one state to another, it wouldn’t be a problem to get one dose in one state and the second in another state. A recent poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation found only 29% of parents of children under age 18 said they would get their children vaccinated as soon as they were eligible. An additional 32% said they would wait to see how the vaccine was working before getting their children inoculated. The remaining parents said either that their child would be vaccinated only if their school required it (15%) or definitely wouldn't be vaccinated (19%). While the FDA has expanded the authorization, it doesn’t mean that teens will automatically be vaccinated. When and where this will happen will depend on where they live, since states regulate medical practice, including the administration of vaccines.Pfizer submits to FDA for full approval of its vaccine