Dallas County gives children ages 5-11 their first COVID-19 vaccine shots

Dallas County gives children ages 5-11 their first COVID-19 vaccine shots

November 4, 2021 | Dallas County Health and Human Services offered their first Pfizer COVID-19 shots to kids ages 5 to 11 who made appointments at their clinics Thursday. “So far, it doesn’t hurt,” 10-year-old Jesus said, shortly after getting his vaccine. His mom, Melina Solis, brought him to the drive-thru clinic at the Dallas College Eastfield Campus in Mesquite.

Dallas County gives children ages 5-11 their first COVID-19 vaccine shots

Updates: Here’s where and how your child can get a COVID-19 vaccine in North Texas

November 3, 2021 | Children ages 5-11 are now eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, following the final signoff from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday night. And health officials say they’re ready to begin putting shots in arms. The Texas Department of State Health Services announced the state will receive 1.3 million doses of Pfizer’s pediatric vaccine, shipped to more than 900 providers in 155 counties across the state.

Young Dallas Kids Roll Up Sleeves For COVID-19 Vaccine

Young Dallas Kids Roll Up Sleeves For COVID-19 Vaccine

November 3, 2021 |Dallas County Health and Human Services started the next chapter of COVID-19 vaccination service Wednesday, Nov. 3 when the public health agency kicked off a mini-vaccination clinic for children ages 5 to 11. More than 30 families lined up for CDC-approved Pfizer vaccine doses designed for younger children.

‘This is general mistrust’: What key messengers are teaching Dallas about COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy

‘This is general mistrust’: What key messengers are teaching Dallas about COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy

November 2, 2021 | Dale Long was in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., when it was bombed by four white Americans in 1963. Four young girls were killed. They were friends of Long and his brother, Kenneth, who were just a few rooms away at the time of the explosion. Dale and Kenneth walked away physically unharmed. When Long was just 8, his father also told him about the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, in which the U.S. Public Health Service, with eventual supervision by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, experimented on nearly 400 Black Americans in Tuskegee, Ala., from 1932 to 1972 to determine the full effects of syphilis. Over 100 people died as a result of the study.