Biden says kids under 12 could be eligible for COVID vaccines in weeks. That's not likely.

 

President Joe Biden is optimistic that vaccines for children under 12 years old could be available as early as August.

Biden made the statement during a town hall Wednesday in Cincinnati hosted by CNN. After speaking with scientists, Biden said, he wasn't promised a specific date, but he did have an expectation. 

"My expectation talking to the group of scientists we put together, over 20 of them, plus others in the field, is that sometime maybe in the beginning of the school year, at the end of August, beginning of September, October, they'll get a final approval," he said.