No Shots, No Day Care: Parents of Kids Under 5 Stuck in Grueling Limbo
The New York Times
Facing an uncontrolled surge of virus cases, parents of young children are again forced to wrestle with child care crises as the rest of the world appears eager to move on.
HOUSTON — Twice last year, Margaret Schulte and her husband, Jason Abercrombie, traveled 11 hours round-trip to Louisiana from their home in Tulsa, Okla., in the hopes of vaccinating their children, who were 2 and 4, against the coronavirus.
The only way they could get shots for their children — among the more than 19 million Americans under 5 years old who are not yet eligible for vaccinations — was to take part in a clinical trial. So they signed up, hoping a successful vaccine would mean that by now, or at least sometime very soon, a semblance of prepandemic life would be on the horizon.
It has not worked out that way.
