Are You Vaccinating Your Kid For COVID? Take The NJ Patch Survey

NEW JERSEY – Parents, please get your teenager vaccinated against coronavirus. That's the message from Gov. Phil Murphy at his Wednesday press conference. The question is, will parents listen.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel approved the emergency-use authorization of Pfizer's vaccine for teens ages 12-15 on Wednesday afternoon. Gov. Murphy said all New Jersey children in that age group would be able to get the shot as early as Thursday anywhere wherever Pfizer's vaccine is being administered.

Murphy said he could not comment yet on whether New Jersey will require children and teens get the coronavirus vaccine to go back to school in September.

"I hope we can get there of their own free will to get vaccinated as opposed to mandating it," said Murphy Wednesday. "I will say this: It's just a reality that ... it's gonna be a lot more convenient to be vaccinated, and a lot more inconvenient to not be vaccinated. That's just gonna be a fact over time."

Patch wants to know, now that the vaccine is available for 12 and up, will you be taking your child for an inoculation? Fill out our survey below.

Editor's note: This survey is being sent to all 60 North Jersey Patch sites. The survey is not meant to be a scientific poll, with random sampling and margins of error, but is meant only to gauge the sentiments of our readers in an informal way. The survey will remain open until noon on May 17.