EditorialOtto Linn-Walton, 8, receives a dose of coronavirus vaccine in Manhattan on Nov. 2, 2021. Health care providers mobilized nationally for a fresh wave of COVID-19 inoculations, featuring smaller shots in smaller arms, as children ages 5 to 11, like Otto, became eligible for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. (James Estrin/The New York Times)
EditorialInoculations among older children have lagged: only about 42 percent of children ages 12 to 15 have been fully vaccinated in the U.S., compared with 66 percent of adults. (Christopher Capozziello/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Won Lee, a specialist in geriatric care who said she lost 28 patients to COVID-19 before the vaccines became available, gives an at-home checkup to Almeta Trotter, 77, who recently got her first of the two COVID-19 inoculations she needs, in Boston, Sept. 1, 2021. (Kayana Szymczak/The New York Times)
EditorialVials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are readied for inoculations at the University of Iowa Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa, Dec. 14, 2020. (Kathryn Gamble/The New York Times)
EditorialDoses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine ? which, unlike the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine, requires two inoculations some weeks apart ? at a vaccination site in Newark N.J., June 19, 2021. (Bryan Anselm/The New York Times)
EditorialWorkers walk past a "Capri Covid Free" billboard after disembarking from the ferry from Naples in Capri, Italy, on May 10, 2021. (Gianni Cipriano/The New York Times)
EditorialZach Riley, owner, operator, and pharmacist at Livingston Drug in Livingston, Ala., on March 15, 2021, fills prescriptions in between administering COVID-19 vaccinations. (Abdul Aziz/The New York Times)
EditorialVaccination booths at Serbia’s largest vaccination center, at the Belgrade Fair in Belgrade, on Wednesday, March 10, 2021. (Laura Boushnak/The New York Times)
EditorialPeople wait to receive a dose of the Moderna vaccine at the Ingersoll Houses Community Center gym in Brooklyn, March 13, 2021. (Brittainy Newman/The New York Times)
EditorialDebra McCarty, the director of the medical clinic in Fort Yukon, Alaska, administers a COVID-19 vaccine, Feb. 5, 2021. (Ash Adams/The New York Times)
EditorialPeople lineup outside Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021, where a COVID-19 vaccination site has opened. (James Estrin/The New York Times)
EditorialTwo people receive COVID-19 vaccine inoculations at a drive-thru COVID-19 vaccination site in a Dodger Stadium parking lot in Los Angeles, Jan. 20, 2021. (Ryan Young/The New York Times)
EditorialNurses prepare a vaccine center in Pune, India, on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, ahead of Saturday’s COVID-19 vaccine inoculations. (Atul Loke/The New York Times)
EditorialA nurse administers Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine during a clinical trial in Moscow, Sept. 11, 2020. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times)
EditorialAn employee at work on Dec. 31 2020, at the Global Halal Center in Bogor, near Jakarta, Indonesia, where the coronavirus vaccine made by the Chinese company Sinovac was analyzed to determine the drug’s halal status in Indonesia. (Ulet Ifansasti/The New York Times)
EditorialVials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is readied for inoculations of staff at University of Iowa Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa, Dec. 14 , 2020. (Kathryn Gamble/The New York Times)
EditorialSyringes with Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine, ready for inoculations at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Dec. 15, 2020. (Scott McIntyre/The New York Times)
EditorialPeople in the United States who are vaccinated against the coronavirus will receive personal record cards noting the medical provider, vaccine maker, batch number and date of their inoculations. (EJ Hersom/DOD via The New York Times)