Zoey Goore, a Kaiser Permanente pediatrician in Roseville, Calif., said her practice near Sacramento planned to start inoculating younger children next week, and had received its first shipment of vaccines on Tuesday: “Our pharmacists took a picture and sent it to everyone.”
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About five million of them are allocated to pharmacies in the federal program that have been key to the adult vaccination rollout. The Biden administration has enlisted 20,000 pediatricians, family doctors and pharmacies to administer the shots and is shipping 15 million doses. Absent vaccination, they say, younger children are vulnerable to hospitalization and, in the most rare cases, death from Covid-19, and they can transmit the virus to people of all age groups. “I’m going to get a doughnut,” he announced.Īlthough the infection rate in the United States plummeted for weeks as the reach of the contagious Delta variant ebbed, federal officials have warned that another spike is still possible. The boy cried, then stopped when the shot ended and he got a treat and a neon-colored Band-Aid. Next to him sat a golden retriever comfort dog, Cohen, paws raised by his handler to give Thomas a pair of high-fives. The decision was in line with the Food and Drug Administration, which on Friday authorized emergency use of the pediatric dose for the roughly 28 million children in that age group. Late Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for children aged 5 through 11. With the blessing of federal authorities - and just in time for yet another stressful holiday season - health care providers mobilized nationally this week for a fresh wave of inoculations, this time featuring smaller shots in smaller arms. “Looks like I’ll be vaccinating kids in my suit this Saturday.” “Yeah,” the Orange County, Calif., pediatrician said, laughing. Eric Ball realized he would have to skip some of his friend’s daughter’s bat mitzvah.
And amid a deluge of demand from parents desperate to get their children at least partially inoculated by Thanksgiving, Dr. Nationally, Walgreens and CVS pharmacies opened appointment lines for millions of miniature doses. In Houston, Texas Children’s Hospital on Wednesday morning tackled the first of some 35,000 pediatric Covid-19 vaccine appointments, a rush that officials said had been booked in just five days.
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