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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – So it’s authoritative this greeting children ages 5–11 tin present get Pfizer’s COVID vaccine.
It’s a smaller dose and volition travel from smaller needles.
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In immoderate places, the shots are going to beryllium disposable arsenic aboriginal arsenic today.
“I deliberation it’s precise exciting, I deliberation it truly puts the pandemic ending successful perspective,” says Dr. Jennifer Preiss, a pediatrician with Allegheny Health Network and has been gearing up her bureau to marque the shots available.
The shots are a 3rd of the archetypal vaccine shots adults were given.
“It is going to beryllium a 2 vaccine bid separated by 3 weeks, which is identical to the adults, and what’s truly important is that immunity is not wholly done oregon afloat until astir 2 weeks aft that 2nd vaccine,” she says.
So portion immunity for Thanksgiving is not imaginable Dr. Preiss says, “yes, but Christmas, if radical leap connected it, Christmas, kids volition beryllium appropriately and person due immunity.”
Just arsenic immoderate adults got sick with their vaccine shots Dr. Preiss says that’s imaginable for children too.
“It’s astir 10 to 20% of vaccine receivers, get immoderate benignant of reaction, that absorption tin beryllium sore limb and swollen lymph nodes nether the spot that wherever they got the vaccine, and tin beryllium arsenic wide arsenic having a low-grade headache for 2 oregon 3 days oregon perchance feeling somewhat sick with fever and mild, achy ness each implicit their body,” she explains.
Dr. Preiss says the vaccine effectiveness is awesome astatine 91% successful the Pfizer proceedings with 5 to 11-year-olds.
“Compare those to what we springiness our children connected an yearly ground for flu, it is much, overmuch higher,” she says. “Flu runs betwixt 40 and 60% immunity, truthful these vaccines are acold amended than what we adjacent asked for flu.”
Those smaller needles Dr. Preiss says are needed truthful the vaccine goes into a child’s musculus and doesn’t overshoot into the halfway of the arm.
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Even earlier this approval, Dr. Preiss says she has already been dealing with parental concerns.
One of the biggest is simply a societal media story that disquieted parents fearfulness the vaccine could interaction a girl’s fertility.
“So that misinformation run astir fertility truly took clasp and needs to beryllium disavowed, it’s not true,” she says.
Then determination is myocarditis, an inflammation of the bosom successful children that has been associated with COVID.
Dr. Preiss says determination is simply a precise flimsy hazard of myocarditis from the vaccine.
“This myocarditis broadside effect is much, overmuch little terrible and 99% of the clip is treated with symptomatic medicine that’s conscionable implicit the antagonistic and remainder and volition wholly resoluteness wrong weeks if not 2 oregon 3 months,” Dr. Priess explains.
She says getting myocarditis from COVID tin person long-term, adverse impacts.
As for the freedoms a kid volition person from getting the extortion of the vaccine, “I deliberation yet erstwhile there’s capable vaccinated children oregon children that person really had COVID wrong the schools, I deliberation the vaccine, the disguise mandate volition travel down. I deliberation there’ll beryllium a batch much state to person children socialized usually similar you’re expected to socialize.”
She says restrictions connected sports and extracurricular activities volition go little stringent.
But that’s going to instrumentality astir 80% vaccinated oregon person had COVID and that volition beryllium pugnacious erstwhile a CBS News canvass past nighttime indicated 30% of parents person already indicated they won’t get their kid vaccinated against COVID.
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As for protecting children nether five, Dr. Preiss says since that vaccine is inactive successful trials, the champion extortion for the youngest children is for everyone other successful the household to beryllium vaccinated, creating a vaccination bubble astir them.
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