Experts: Expanding Pfizer vaccine to young kids key to curbing COVID
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A sign with the Pfizer logo stands outside the corporate headquarters of Pfizer Canada in Montreal, on Monday, Nov. 9, 2020.Ryan Remiorz / Associated Press
Connecticut health experts welcomed the prediction that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine could be cleared as early as September for use in children ages 2 to 11.
Despite the news shared by a Pfizer executive, many pointed out that approval could still be months away.
“We have to understand that the prediction of expanded use by September is just that it is a prediction,” said Dr. Magna Dias, chair of pediatrics Bridgeport Hospital. “We have no information with which to judge whether that would be something we would support or not.”
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FARMINGTON United Way of the Tri-Valley Area recently added five new members to its board of directors.
Dr. Erika Schumacher obtained her medical degree from the Larner UVM School of Medicine in 2008 and completed residency at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital in June of 2011. She subsequently directed the Yale Pediatric Refugee Clinic for newly arrived refugees for several years, as well as practiced pediatric medicine in a community practice in central Connecticut. In 2015, she relocated with her husband and daughter to Farmington, worked five years at Franklin Memorial Hospital and then opened a private practice at Narrow Gauge Square.
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