Jill Schwartz has been searching Chicago for COVID shots for her three young children, ages 1, 3 and 5. She tried their pediatrician’s office. A pediatric clinic. Walgreens. No luck.
In Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania, Rebecca Seidel has been trying to find a vaccine for her 7-year-old son. The pharmacist at a nearby CVS said that the store had no pediatric doses and that two other CVS locations didn’t either. So Seidel contacted the family’s pediatrician — who directed her to CVS.
Leigh Bullion of Portland, Maine, also struggled to find shots for her 5- and 7-year-old sons. Her pediatrician did not have vaccines for children younger than 12. Neither did a supermarket-pharmacy chain. And the closest Walgreens offering pediatric doses was about 20 miles away…