Tampa Bay Preparing After Children’s Covid-19 Vaccine Receives Final Approval

Tampa Bay Preparing After Children’s Covid-19 Vaccine Receives Final Approval

November 3, 2021 | “Definitely getting her vaccinated as soon as we can,” USF Health’s Dr. Michael Teng plans to get his five-year-old daughter vaccinated as soon as possible. “It’s just.. we’ve been waiting kind of on edge and I thought maybe we would have earlier this Fall [where] all school age children would be able to get vaccinated.” After Tuesday’s final approval, pediatricians can start vaccinating children ages 5-11 against Covid-19. Federal health officials approved the Pfizer brand vaccine for about 28 million children.

Seven spooky things people say are in the COVID-19 vaccines but definitely aren’t

Seven spooky things people say are in the COVID-19 vaccines but definitely aren’t

October 30, 2021 | Just in time for Halloween, claims about what’s lurking in the COVID-19 vaccines are getting wilder and spookier. There’s the “transhumanism nanotechnology” ingredient that will apparently turn all of us into copies of the Terminator. There’s also “graphene oxide,” a material that some claimed will straight up kill you. Why didn’t Michael Myers think of that? Rest assured, we’ve fact-checked this, and it’s all fake gore.

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5 things to know ahead of COVID vaccine rollout for ages 5-11

October 22, 2021 | The Food and Drug Administration is expected to discuss data on the safety and efficacy of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5-11 on Oct. 26. The Florida Department of Health in Hillsborough County and experts from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health weigh in on what we can expect once it’s rolled out.