Delay in vaccines for kids upset parents. Experts say it was the right thing to do.

Experts say the decision was the right one. The FDA won’t have enough data until the spring to judge whether a vaccine is safe and effective for young children, a half-dozen public health, infectious disease specialists and epidemiologists told USA TODAY.

But parent activists say the move made them question the agency’s sincerity in providing shots for the youngest kids, wonder whether unreleased data was hiding anything, and yearn even more for the day they can stop worrying about the health of their children and families.

“I think people are really forgetting the kids here,” said Fatima Khan, cofounder of Protect Their Future, an advocacy group promoting COVID-19 vaccination for children. “This is impacting our kids and how people can live their daily lives.”