A recent Gallup poll finds that 14% of U.S. parents of children under age 5 say their child has received a COVID-19 vaccine. This comes about two months after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized emergency use of vaccines for children in this age group.

While relatively few children this young have been vaccinated thus far, 29% of parents say they plan to have their child immunized. However, a solid 57% majority do not intend to do so.

In contrast, 52% of parents of children aged 5 and older say their child has been immunized against COVID-19, while 4% still plan to do so and 44% do not…

Past Gallup data suggest that vaccine uptake within younger populations typically trails that of older age groups about a month after the vaccines become available to them. Roughly a month after 16- to 18-year-olds and 12- to 15-year-olds became eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccination, about four in 10 parents said their child had already been immunized and just under one in five said they were planning to. Fewer parents of those aged 5 to 11 (31%) reported their child had received a COVID-19 vaccine a month after they were cleared to do so, but another 21% said they planned to.