Younger adolescents get ready to receive COVID-19 vaccine

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“It is about getting their kid in school five days a week. It is about going to see grandma and grandpa.' Parents, schools and clinics began inoculating younger adolescents after the FDA endorsed Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children as young as 12.

Nawaf Albarakati, 17, of Narberth, Pa., reacts as he receives a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination from registered nurse Alicia Jimenez at a Montgomery County, Pa., Office of Public Health vaccination clinic at the King of Prussia Mall, Tuesday, May 11, 2021, in King of Prussia., Pa.

for the nearly 17 million 12- to 15-year-olds in the U.S. Now, the entire family – including Norman’s husband, a physician, and their 17-year-old son – has begun the vaccination process.Most COVID-19 vaccines worldwide have been authorized for adults. Pfizer’s vaccine is being used in multiple countries for teens as young as 16, and Canada recently became the first to expand use to children 12 and up.

The Iowa-based grocery store chain Hy-Vee, which has 278 stores in eight Midwestern states, was looking to begin offering the vaccine to younger adolescents as soon as Thursday. Interest has been strong among parents, who deluged stores with calls and emails after the FDA signed off on the vaccine, Hy-Vee spokesperson Christina Gayman said.

Fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Goluszka was ready. For more than a year, she and her friends have celebrated birthdays and holidays at a distance. The teenagers left gifts outside each other’s homes as a replacement for the parties they planned and then canceled as the pandemic wore on. Elizabeth said she also missed dance competitions and chatting with friends over lunch at Batavia High School in Chicago’s western suburbs.

“It will be really nice to be able to say, ‘Hey, want to go get ice cream or something?’” Nicolas said.

 

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Grandma and Grampa got vaccinated months ago…so… the kids will be ok

I found this senate hearing testimony from a Texas pediatrician very compelling and informative.

My grandson has been in school 5 days a week since last Sept!! It can be done... In that amount of time there have only been 5 reported cases at his school only 1 of those was another 3rd grader I think the others were adults that worked there.

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