Biden visits clinic, hails COVID shots for young kids

US President Joe Biden visited a vaccination clinic in Washington where some of the first shots were given to young children in the last major age group ineligible for vaccines, hailing it as an important pandemic milestone that will support the country's recovery.

While anyone aged six months and up is now eligible for vaccines, the administration is cautioning that it expects the pace of shots for the youngest kids to be slower than older ones, as parents are more likely to rely on their children's pediatricians to administer them. Biden said that the United States is now the first country in the world to offer safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines for children as young as six months old. He added that this is no time for politics. It's about parents being able to do everything they can to keep the children safe.