Maryland parents divided over vaccinating their children against COVID-19 | PHOTOS

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Georgia Coe, 6, gets her COVID-19 vaccine Friday. Children ages 5 to 11 receive their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine at the White Marsh Mall on Friday, November 4. (Ulysses Muñoz/The Baltimore Sun)

For many Maryland parents and guardians, a long and worrisome period of the pandemic is drawing to a hopeful close with federal regulators authorizing COVID-19 vaccinations for elementary school-aged children.