Will You Vaccinate Your 12- To 15-Year-Old? Take Our Survey

NORTH CAROLINA — Federal regulators on Monday cleared Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccinations for youth ages 12 to 15, sparking the race to have middle school and younger high school-aged students inoculated before fall classes resume.

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services reports that more than 7.6 million North Carolinians have received at least one dose of the vaccine — more than one-half of the state's adult population — and nearly 4 million, or 45 percent, are fully vaccinated.

Vaccinating all ages of children is a critical step toward returning to normalcy, health officials say.

But with expanded availability of the vaccine for a new age group comes some of the same debates families faced when shots became available for adults and older teens: to vaccinate or not to vaccinate.

Patch wants to know what you think about vaccinating your young teens. We've created a survey with questions about whether this vaccine is the choice for your family, and how you think vaccinating your child or children could impact your family's quality of life.

The survey is not meant to be a scientific poll, with random sampling and margins of error. It's meant only to gauge the sentiments of our readers in an informal way.

The survey is below, or may be found here.