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  While the Food and Drug Administration approves vaccines, it’s the CDC that decides who should get them. The shots offer young children protection from hospitalization, death and possible long-term complications that are still not clearly understood, the CDC’s advisory panel said. The government has already been gearing up for the vaccine expansion, with  millions of doses ordered  for distribution to doctors, hospitals and community health clinics around the country. Roughly 18 million kids will be eligible, but it remains to be seen how many will ultimately get the vaccines. Less than a third of children ages 5 to 11 have done so since vaccination opened up to them last November. Here are some things to know: WHAT KINDS ARE AVAILABLE? Two brands — Pfizer and Moderna — got the green light Friday from the FDA. The vaccines use the same technology but are being offered at different dose sizes and number of shots for the youngest kids. Pfizer’s vaccine is for 6 months thr...

  While the Food and Drug Administration approves vaccines, it’s the CDC that decides who should get them. The shots offer young children protection from hospitalization, death and possible long-term complications that are still not clearly understood, the CDC’s advisory panel said. The government has already been gearing up for the vaccine expansion, with  millions of doses ordered  for distribution to doctors, hospitals and community health clinics around the country. Roughly 18 million kids will be eligible, but it remains to be seen how many will ultimately get the vaccines. Less than a third of children ages 5 to 11 have done so since vaccination opened up to them last November. Here are some things to know: WHAT KINDS ARE AVAILABLE? Two brands — Pfizer and Moderna — got the green light Friday from the FDA. The vaccines use the same technology but are being offered at different dose sizes and number of shots for the youngest kids. Pfizer’s vaccine is for 6 months thr...

  Phil Bennett obituary One of the great Welsh rugby fly-halfs who played for Llanelli and the British Lions Phil Bennett kicking into touch for Wales during a 1977 match in the Five Nations against Scotland.  Photograph: Colorsport Ian Malin Tue 14 Jun 2022 15.57 BST 13 In the golden age of Welsh rugby during the 1970s, no player more personified the national side’s artistry and the passion for the sport than Phil Bennett. The mercurial Llanelli No 10, who has died aged 73 of throat cancer, came from a strong national tradition of fly-halfs. At Llanelli he developed his game under the coaching genius of Carwyn James. Before long the 20-year-old Bennett was exchanging the scarlet jersey of Llanelli for a similarly hued jersey of  Wales  when he won a first cap as their first ever replacement for an injured player, Gerald Davies, at the Stade de Colombes, Paris, in 1969. He never touched the ball. Rugby’s dazzling wizard Phil Bennett converted plenty to the oval ball ...