Delta variant: Experts split on when kids should get vaccine

Finn McHugh
Updated August 21 2021 - 4:17pm, first published 4:00am
The Delta variant's spread among children has moved the goalposts on vaccinating the young, one epidemiologist says. Picture: Shutterstock
The Delta variant's spread among children has moved the goalposts on vaccinating the young, one epidemiologist says. Picture: Shutterstock

As COVID-19 rampaged through the elderly in the darkest days of 2020, vaccinating children seemed a distant prospect.

Finn McHugh

Finn McHugh

Federal Political Reporter

Finn McHugh has been federal political reporter for The Canberra Times since July 2021. He joined the Canberra Press Gallery in 2019 where he was executive producer of Sky News's AM Agenda, before joining NCA NewsWire as a federal political reporter. He has previously interned at the Kuwait Times.