The U.S. just began vaccine rollout for children aged 12-15. Here's what you need to know

May 13, 2021 / 5:49 pm

caption: Doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine are shown ready to be used on Thursday, April 15, 2021, at Lumen Field Event Center in Seattle. As of Thursday, anyone 16 years of age and older is eligible.

We answer your questions about the COVID-19 vaccination and children -- is it safe? What trials have been done? Will children under 12 years of age eventually become eligible? Then, we dive into all things Amazon with Brad Stone. And lastly, we speak with Chris Vance about his vision for a possible replacement of the Republican party.

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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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