Nearly Two-Thirds of Parents Won’t Update Children’s COVID Vaccine: Report

A nurse prepares a dose of the Moderna vaccine against COVID-19, donated by the United States, at a vaccination center in San Juan Sacatepequez, Guatemala, on July 15, 2021. Johan Ordonez/AFP via Getty Images

More than 60 percent of Canadian parents say they do not plan to keep their children up-to-date on COVID-19 vaccines, with 41 percent expressing hesitancy to do so, research suggests.

A Public Health Agency of Canada survey found that only 17.5 percent of parents said they would “definitely” keep their children’s COVID vaccine status current while 23 percent said they ”probably” would.