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Shot in the arm for teens getting first COVID vaccines in Detroit


With the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s approval Wednesday of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccines for those age 12 to 15, just under 500,000 more people in Michigan are now eligible for the vaccine, said Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, Michigan s chief deputy director for health and a mother of two children.
And, Khaldun said, children also can get other vaccinations at the same time as they get their COVID-19 shot with their medical provider.
On Thursday, parents and teens headed out to vaccination clinics in metro Detroit to get their first of two shots.
Dia Berry of Dearborn Heights brought his twin 14-year-old daughters, Sirine and Elissar Berry, to a Walgreens pharmacy on Ecorse Road in Taylor on Thursday morning to get their first doses.  ....

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Don't neglect the other vaccines that protect children | News, Sports, Jobs


Apr 14, 2021
After a year of dealing with a global pandemic and as people are encouraged to get a COVID-19 vaccine when available, some other crucial vaccinations to protect the public apparently are getting overlooked.
State and national health officials earlier this week raised an ominous warning that vaccination rates for young children against illnesses such as measles, mumps, pertussis, chickenpox and more had dangerously dropped in many states, including Michigan, as parents postponed well-child visits due to the COVID-19 threat.
Vaccination rates for Michigan children ages 19 to 36 months have fallen below 70% in more than half of the state, or 42 of 83 counties, according to February data from the Michigan Care Improvement Registry. In six Michigan counties including Iron County in the Upper Peninsula and the City of Detroit, the rate has dropped below 60%. ....

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