It’s official: your 12-16 year-old kids can roll up their sleeves and take the Pfizer vaccine.
While children are less likely to pick up the COVID-19 virus, and will be far less likely to have a hard time with it if they do, they CAN still catch it. If they have low- or no symptoms they can also be unwitting carriers to adults and high-risk loved ones.
Area doctors are enthusiastic while the Craven County Schoolboard is helping spread the word to parents and organizations.
“The short answer: I think it’s fabulous,” Dr. Rad Moeller, vice-president of the North Carolina Rheumatology, who practices in New Bern and Havelock, said. Moeller has been closely tracking the vaccine development since its earliest stages.