Three-fourths of Hong Kong parents won’t allow young children to get Covid shots

More than three-quarters of parents with young children have said they will not let their youngsters receive a Covid-19 vaccine, with 80 per cent citing side effects or death as their main concern, according to a survey. The survey was published by the Society of Hospital Pharmacists, which last month interviewed 322 parents of children aged five to 15. According to the survey findings, released on Sunday, about 76 per cent of respondents with children aged five to 11 said they were unwilling to vaccinate them within the next six months, three times more than the amount of parents with older children.