Twins Carlos and Carla, six, will be vaccinated as soon as they can make an appointment with their pediatrician or when vaccines are available in schools next week, as Mayor de Blasio plans.
Well, according to his mother: “I will consult with your doctor first and if necessary I will put it on. If necessary you have to put them on”.
On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) gave the go-ahead to begin inoculating children between the ages of 5 and 11.
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Last week the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the emergency use of Pfizer doses for these minors.
Jessica, another mother of a family, is in favor of giving the vaccine to her 8-year-old son, but is concerned about the symptoms: “Look if an adult when he got the first dose how we got with that arm pain. Imagine a boy of five years. But if we see that it is for his good, then we have to do it. “
Children would receive two injections with only a third of the dose that adults receive and would also have to receive two doses.
Pfizer has claimed that its vaccine against COVID-19 is up to 91% effective in preventing symptomatic coronavirus infections for children.
“I agree because that is for health and to avoid infecting other children. It is better to be vaccinated. Look, I feel protected because I am vaccinated if I was not vaccinated I would be scared,” explains a neighbor.
Meanwhile, the Mayor has indicated that the municipal government will be ready to begin vaccinating starting this Thursday and are awaiting clinical instructions from the CDC.
De Blasio plans to start next week:
- 1,070 vaccination sites are established in public schools
- over the course of a week
- and vaccination begins in 200 schools per day, where children of those ages attend.
For a minor to be inoculated, they must be accompanied by a parent or guardian and can also give consent by phone.
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