Emmanuel is 9 years old and nervous because he is waiting to get the Pfizer vaccine, recently licensed for children between 5 and 11 years of age.
The boy and his mother were shopping for the pantry in Sunset Park, when they saw that the vaccination bus on Fifth Avenue was offering vaccines for minors for the first time and several parents came with their children.
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Lizbeth García is the mother of the vaccinated child: “I don’t want my child to get serious about COVID. That is why I came to vaccinate him. I take advantage of once because if he gets sick, tomorrow he can stay at home, he can rest” .
Emmanuel shows us the sweets that his mother bought him as a gift to motivate him. Minutes later he gets on the bus and receives the first dose. Apparently it was not painful for him.
The next day Emmanuel woke up with no fever or severe symptoms during the night.
“He just told me that he felt a little tired, he had a bath, had dinner and went to sleep. I asked him how he felt, he told me that it was fine that only his arm hurt. I asked him: are you going to go to school Yes, I am going to go. Brave went to school, “explains his mother.
Emmanuel felt so good the day after the vaccination that he decided to go to school while his mother worked. Hours later, he left school happy that he had no symptoms and that he was already immunized against COVID.
After the experience, Lizbeth says that it is important that other children get vaccinated and thus take the worry away from the parents: “You have to vaccinate them so they don’t have them in the hospital.”
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