Pharmaceutical manufacturer Pfizer gave you good news on Monday if you want to vaccinate your kids against COVID-19. Pfizer announced it would be seeking U.S. authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine aimed at kids between the ages of 5 and 11. The Associated Press reports the vaccine is a third of the amount adults and teens have been receiving, but it developed the same antibody levels as the full dose with similar side effects. The Food and Drug Administration will still have to give it its seal of approval before it can be distributed. Last week, Door County Medical Center Chief Pediatrician Dr. Amy Fogarty estimated during a joint Facebook Lives session with Door County Public Health that vaccine availability is still weeks away for school-aged children and even longer for those younger than that.

Until then, Fogarty recommends students mask up while in the classroom and for people vaccine-eligible to get vaccinated in order to keep kids learning in the classroom. Monday marked the first day Sturgeon Bay and Sevastopol had at least a portion of its student population required to wear a mask, joining Washington Island, Gibraltar, and St. John Bosco in the practice.