COVID-19 vaccine for kids: Where to get a pediatric vaccine shot
November 10, 2021 | Now that kids ages 5-11 are eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, here is a list of locations offering pediatric doses in Ohio and Kentucky:
Schools Take Lead Role in Promoting Vaccines for Youngsters
November 7, 2021 | With the approval of the COVID-19 vaccine for younger children, many elementary schools around the U.S. are preparing to offer the shots, which educators see as key to keeping students learning in person and making the classroom experience closer to what it once was.
Now that children ages 5-11 can get the COVID-19 vaccine, here’s how to relieve anxiety
November 7, 2021 | Young Cincinnati-area children can now roll up their sleeves for a COVID-19 vaccine but they might be wincing when they do it. Jo Dalton, a pediatric nurse working for Hamilton County Public Health, has seen it a lot during her 20-year career: “They manifest this anxiety even before they arrive,” she said. Dalton says she has a mission to end, or at least diminish, the fears. She’s been teaching Hamilton County Public Health nurses how to administer inoculation with fewer shrieks and tears. She has advice for parents, too.
Verity, 8, has advice for other kids getting vaccinated: ‘You shouldn’t be afraid, it’s not gonna hurt.’
November 5, 2021 | One day after she got her COVID-19 vaccine, 8-year-old Verity was a chatterbox. Did her arm hurt? “No.” Sleepy? “No.” Headache, fever, anything? “No.” Verity was among the first of 430 children 5 to 11 years old who got a first dose of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine for kids in her age group at a pop-up clinic Wednesday at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
Local children roll up their sleeves to get Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine
November 4, 2021 | Local kids as young as 5 are rolling up their sleeves to get the Pfizer COVID vaccine following the CDC’s approval yesterday. Renee Caslow, a pediatrician and the Executive Director of Primary Care with Marietta Memorial Health Systems says over 70 kids received their first shot on Wednesday. Caslow says many of the kids came from families whose parents wanted their kids to get vaccinated as soon as possible.
She can go back to doing gymnastics’: First young children receive COVID-19 vaccines in Cincinnati
November 4, 2021| Medical teams across Cincinnati began administering COVID-19 vaccines to 5-to-11 years old on Wednesday. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital inoculated over 400 children before the end of the day. On Wednesday, Children’s accepted so many walk-in parents seeking vaccinations for their children that they stopped accepting walk-ins for the time being.
