Not for kids five and under Dr. Fauci says children from 6 months to 5 years old may be able to get vaccinated against COVID-19 by the spring of 2022. Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine seems like the likely frontrunner for FDA authorization in that age group. "Can't guarantee it, you've got to do the clinical trial," Fauci said of his predicted timeline. Kids younger than 5 years old are the only people in the US who still can't get any COVID-19 vaccines. But Dr. Anthony Fauci says they (and their parents) shouldn't have to wait too much longer. "Hopefully within a reasonably short period of time, likely the beginning of next year in 2022, in the first quarter of 2022, it will be available to them," Fauci told Insider, though he quickly acknowledged there's really no way to know that for sure. "Can't guarantee it, you've got to do the clinical trial," he said.