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Your % for kids under 5 isn't indicative of much. We signed up for a vaccine for my almost-3yo the day they were released and we're scheduled for next week. I know lots of parents who are also scheduled and most are after us.

Just because they were made available a month ago doesn't mean anyone actually had access a month ago.

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With significantly more constrained supply, demand for 1st doses was materially higher for every other age group

For instance, 5-11 year olds were up to 15% at about the same period of time after the vaccines were made available to that age group - https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/an-upda...

15% vs. 2% is a pretty substantial drop in just ~6 months, no?

We - as in parents - literally can't get them. They are intentionally releasing the vaccine for under 5s significantly slower. The comparison doesn't make sense. This has nothing to do with demand.

This has been my experience as well. We go to a large pediatrician practice and they hadn’t even had a meeting yet to start planning to distribute to under 5 kids when it got approved.

They finally just called us to see if we wanted it, but we ended up going to Rite Aid.

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