In Alaska, only 25% of kids ages 5 to 11 had received at least one shot by mid-February. Nationally, 31% have.
Allison Gibbs takes a photo of her daughter Juliet O’Connor, 13, after O’Connor received her first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, May 13, 2021 at Geneva Woods Birth Center in Anchorage. O’Connor is looking forward to traveling this summer.
Dr. Kilian Schafer, a pediatrician at the Children’s Clinic, said he’s still getting a lot of the same questions from parents as he did in November, when the CDC authorized the vaccine for children from 5 to 11 years old. He said he tries to address parents’ concerns, and explain how getting kids vaccinated can help other family members.
Much of that misinformation revolves around this being a new type of vaccine. It contains mRNA rather than a live virus, like the chickenpox vaccine does, or a dead virus, like flu shots do.
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