Peace of mind : Vaccination opens to kids 12 and over
LANSING – For Evan Yaney, the idea of long needles was scarier than getting his COVID-19 vaccine. I m not nervous about it, Evan said, adding that he s healthy and doesn t expect any side effects.
Evan, 13, of Grand Ledge, was among the first kids vaccinated at Sparrow Laboratories’ vaccination site Thursday. Evan was Sparrow s 2012 miracle child after being diagnosed with leukemia when he was 4 years old.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday night approved the use of the Pfizer vaccine for children 12 to 15 years old. Greater Lansing providers on Thursday opened their doors to children and their parents who want the vaccine.
Sparrow begins vaccinating 12 to 15-year-olds following government approval
Evan Yaney receives first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from Dr. Annette Kopachik.
Sparrow Hospital began to administer COVID-19 Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines to children between the ages of 12 and 15 this morning at the vaccine clinic in Frandor following the recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to begin administering Pfizer vaccines to 12-15-year-olds on May 12.
The CDC’s Advisory Committee of Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted unanimously Wednesday to recommend that kids as young as 12 begin to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
“This is a tremendous development in our fight against COVID-19,” Ingham County Health Officer Linda Vail said in a press release. “Case rates in this age group have been high, and due to sports or school exposures, many children in this age range have had to quarantine. The vaccine will give 12-15 year olds significant protecti
Health departments in Michigan have begun turning down vaccine allocations from the state because they’re unable to find enough people willing to get the
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Ingham County Health Officer Linda Vail describes the dropoff in the number of vaccination appointments as “dramatic, adding at one point in time we were up to 10, 11, 12,000 scheduled appointments in a week. This week, we are anticipating 5,851.”
Still, the county is ordering more vaccine. Pfizer’s vaccine may soon be approved for children as young as 12, and that would likely lead to an uptick in demand.
Vail has decided to order more vaccine even though the department doesn’t currently need it. “At this point in time, she explains, we are going to have enough vaccine on hand that, whether the state sends us more, or there’s something goes wrong with the manufacturing where they had to throw out millions of doses, those sorts of things, that we won’t be impacted like that.”