Plans to vaccinate younger children have been unveiled by the county. Sonoma County Health officials along with the County’s Office of Education and other community partners have a plan in place to deliver free COVID-19 vaccinations to the roughly 37,000 children in the county between the ages of 5 and 11 as soon as the doses are approved by federal regulators. Parents will be encouraged to have their children vaccinated at clinics planned for school sites, local pharmacies or the offices of their primary care physicians. The county’s doctors, health care clinics, schools, pharmacies and public health leaders are working together to educate families about the vaccine and to ensure vaccines are distributed as quickly, safely and equitably as possible. Federal regulators are expected to decide in early November whether to authorize pediatric doses of the Pfizer vaccine for children aged 5 to 11.