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Ohio on track for all adults to be vaccine-eligible by May 1, children will have to wait Jordan Laird
Ohio is on track to offer the coronavirus vaccine to all adults by May 1, in accordance with President Joe Biden’s plan, state and local officials said Friday.
“We’re going to move forward, make it available as quickly as we can,” DeWine said Friday morning while visiting a vaccination clinic in Cincinnati.
Currently, Ohioans 50 and older and those with qualifying health conditions and occupations are eligible to receive the coronavirus vaccine. DeWine said Thursday afternoon that the state likely will continue expanding eligibility for the vaccine by age group or health condition before every adult becomes eligible. He did not specify a date when all residents would become eligible.
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As older adults, health care workers, firefighters, and others roll up their sleeves for a COVID-19 vaccine, there’s a flurry of research to get shots to children, for whom no vaccine has yet been authorized. Even though young people are less likely to fall seriously ill, doctors and scientists agree that vaccinating them is crucial for their own protection and that of the broader population. And because companies already have solid data from adult trials, they are running smaller studies in children that focus on safety and immune responses to COVID-19 vaccines.
The COVID-19 vaccination card looks almost vintage: A rudimentary, wallet-sized ticket of sorts, with some handwritten information and dates of inoculation. It s also a reminder to get your second dose.
But its existence has stirred a lot of discussion about how this proof of vaccination might be used for other COVID-19 pandemic purposes.
We asked regional medical experts about the card and what you ll need to do with it.
Here s who we asked:
M. Sara Rosenthal, Ph.D., professor and director of the University of Kentucky s Program for Bioethics.
Dr. Robert Frenck, principal investigator of the National Institutes of Health-sponsored Vaccine Treatment and Evaluation Unit and director of Gamble Vaccine Research Center. He s leading the COVID-19 vaccine trials at Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center.