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Expanding Covid-19 Vaccines to Kids

Expanding Covid-19 Vaccines to Kids

Liz Healy Photo: WNAX


The Centers for Disease Control have approved kid size doses of Pfizers Covid-19 vaccine for children ages five to eleven. The FDA is expected to follow with approval in the next few days.
Liz Healy, infection control specialist with Avera Sacred Heart Hospital in Yankton, says vaccinating those kids will go a long way in getting Covid under control….

Healy says it looks like Covid-19 will be a long term virus…

Healy says the vaccines have a good track record….

If the FDA agrees with the CDC recommendation, the shots for kids could be available as soon as next week.

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