Vaccine fully authorized for 12-year-olds
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People wait in January at Holiday Village Mall to enter a COVID-19 vaccine clinic run by Bullhook Community Health Center, Hill County Health Department and Northern Montana Hospital. At that time under Phase 1B only people 70 and older, Native Americans and other people of color at a higher risk, people 16 and older with eligible health conditions, and people eligible under Phase 1A, primarily health care workers, were eligible. That eligibility has steadily expanded, and this week, the federal government granted emergency use authorization to administer the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to anyone 12 and older.
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. INDIANAPOLIS A blue card sat on the windshield of Josh Woolvin s black Hyundai Tucson on Tuesday, a spot of color in the sunshine at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It signaled to nurses at this drive-by immunization clinic that Woolvin and his mother, Debbie Shipp, wanted Johnson & Johnson s single-dose coronavirus vaccine, not their other choice, Pfizer-BioNTech s two-shot regimen. Both selected Johnson & Johnson for its one-and-done convenience, a preference that outweighed their concerns about the extremely rare blood clots that prompted a 10-day pause in use of the vaccine. I d rather deal with the side effects than die of COVID-19, Woolvin said. There is no government data yet on whether health authorities ten-day halt in administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine soured people on the product, and the company declined to discuss the matter. But in spot checks across the country, people seeking vaccines and officials dispensing them appear eager to resume using
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