Pediatricians say that getting COVID-19 in between doses should not significantly alter a child’s vaccination schedule
Read MoreHowever, a three-month delay is not required, and some experts say that children should stick to the same dose schedule they would have followed had they not been infected. “If that dose [appointment] is far enough out that they’ve recovered from COVID,” there’s no need to reschedule, Tan says.
Sticking to existing appointments may be especially helpful if a child is about to go back to school or other settings where they’re likely to encounter the coronavirus.Dr. Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist and science communicator who writes the popular, says that if one of her daughters—who both received the first dose of the Moderna vaccine in late June—got infected between doses, she would consider pushing their second shots out by a couple of weeks.
Vaccination can also provide more long-term protection against new variants. “With Omicron and its subvariants, you can get infected again and again and again,” Tan says. “It’s really important that you get your antibody titers up there so that you are protected.” While COVID-19 tends to be less severe in children than in adults, the disease can still put kids in the hospital. More than 70,000 children in the U.S. have been admitted to hospitals with COVID-19 in 2022 so far, according tofrom the Department of Health and Human Services. During the first Omicron surge in January and February, 37,000 children were hospitalized.
In that winter surge, nine out of ten children ages 5 to 11 who were hospitalized for COVID-19 were unvaccinated, according to a
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