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Michelle Goldberg: The intolerable wait for vaccines for children

The FDA knows it will be blamed if anything goes wrong with the vaccine, but not necessarily if kids get horribly sick for lack of it.

(Damon Winter | The New York Times) A playground is taped off at a park in New York on March 29, 2020. “Two weeks ago, 108 members of Congress, worried about how long approval for a pediatric vaccine was taking, wrote to the FDA seeking some visibility into its timetable,” writes The New York Times Columnist Michelle Goldberg. “On Monday, the FDA responded, but without offering specifics.”