Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute

The story of the historic COVID vaccine trial for kids at Children’s Hospital Colorado

Written by The Colorado Sun | October 18, 2021

An elementary school boy came to every appointment in a kid-sized lab coat, a children’s book about mRNA vaccines in his arms. Another child announced she was “helping science.” And Kaniya Smith told her friends in the fourth grade that she was taking the coronavirus vaccine to test it out for the rest of them.