Young children start receiving COVID vaccines in California, Michigan
Younger kids started receiving COVID-19 vaccines Wednesday in what was a second of pleasure not just for their mother and father however the children themselves.
The Western States Scientific Security Assessment Workgroup, a gaggle of immunization and public well being scientists from California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, concluded that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is protected and efficient for kids aged 5 to 11 on Wednesday.
The workgroup’s choice reinforces the FDA’s authorization of the vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds, and formally allowed California to begin vaccinating younger kids.
“This expanded eligibility for lifesaving vaccines strikes us nearer to ending the pandemic, which has taken a heavy toll on the well-being of our youngsters,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom stated in a press release.
At a day information convention, President Joe Biden stated 20,000 websites nationwide could be out there by subsequent week to manage the kids’s vaccine, and he identified that minors make up one-fourth of the COVID-19 circumstances within the nation.
The president not solely urged mother and father of school-age kids to have them vaccinated, but additionally pushed for these 65 and older who’re eligible to get booster pictures.
“Vaccines for kids ages 5 to 11 and boosters (to) present extra safety for seniors and others are two main steps ahead that are going to speed up our path out of this pandemic,” Biden stated.
In Michigan, some kids had been vaccinated on the heels of a choice Tuesday night time by federal regulators to permit children ages 5-11 to get the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine. The choice was applauded by consultants within the state.
“The choice to authorize this Pfizer vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds is one more reason for hope,” stated Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, Michigan’s chief medical government, including: “the choice will assist transfer us ahead towards safer school rooms, household gatherings, participation in sports activities celebrations and every kind of different milestones.”
Additionally within the information:
►Inexperienced Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, the NFL’s reigning MVP, tested positive for the coronavirus and can miss Sunday’s marquee recreation towards the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs. Rodgers is not vaccinated, and lied to the media about it.
►The Nationwide Institutes of Well being will sponsor a four-year research to evaluate the long-term effects of COVID-19 on pregnant ladies and their kids.
►The World Well being Group granted emergency use authorization to an Indian-made COVID-19 vaccine, Covaxin, that had been used for months within the nation. It’s the eighth vaccine to which the WHO has given use authorization.
📈 At the moment’s numbers: The U.S. has recorded 46.2 million confirmed COVID-19 circumstances and greater than 750,400 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data. International totals: Greater than 248 million circumstances and 5 million deaths. Greater than 192.9 million People — 58.1% of the inhabitants — are totally vaccinated, according to the CDC.
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Walgreens, CVS will have children’ vaccine extensively out there by weekend
The nation’s largest pharmacies, Walgreens and CVS, are already accepting online appointments for kids 5 to 11 to get the COVID-19 vaccine following the CDC’s sign-off Tuesday night time of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for the age group.
Walgreens will start administering the pediatric doses at hundreds of shops nationwide beginning Saturday. The primary vaccine shipments are scheduled to reach at some Walgreens places this week, the corporate stated Wednesday.
CVS will start administering the vaccine this weekend, spokesperson Joe Goode instructed USA TODAY. The vaccine can even be out there on the workplaces of pediatricians and first care docs, kids’s hospitals and clinics at colleges.
Vaccines.gov – the one-stop store federal authorities web site – is predicted to quickly listing the closest out there vaccine appointments for kids.
“The COVID-19 vaccine is simply as vital to guard kids as different routine immunizations are, and the expanded eligibility will assist kids keep at school safely and stop extreme sickness attributable to COVID-19,” Kevin Ban, Walgreens’ chief medical officer, stated in a press release.
The Biden administration’s distribution program might be “working at full energy” the week of Nov. 8, presidential adviser Jeff Zients stated Monday, because it has already ordered sufficient vaccine to cowl all 28 million American kids within the age group.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti exams constructive for COVID at UN convention
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has examined constructive for COVID-19, his workplace introduced Wednesday. Garcetti, who’s attending the United Nations convention on local weather change in Glasgow, Scotland, was “feeling good and isolating in his hotel room.”
He’s totally vaccinated however hasn’t obtained a booster shot, his workplace stated.
Garcetti was scheduled to fly again to Los Angeles on Thursday however will observe U.Okay well being tips, spokesman Harrison Wollman stated. These tips say a person ought to quarantine for 10 days, which means Garcetti is likely to be caught in Scotland till then.
The UN occasion, COP26, attracted world leaders, together with President Joe Biden, and included security measures as a result of coronavirus. That included decreased capability, social distancing and using a digital platform to take part remotely.
Garcetti had been getting fast COVID-19 exams every day of the convention, his workplace stated, however had a PCR take a look at earlier than his flight residence and acquired a constructive consequence Wednesday. Garcetti had participated earlier within the day in a dialogue about challenges with tackling local weather change.
— Christal Hayes
Arizona Supreme Courtroom says colleges can hold masks mandates
It took the Arizona Supreme Courtroom lower than two hours Tuesday to agree that the Legislature’s follow of stuffing coverage issues into appropriations payments is unconstitutional.
The unanimous ruling from the seven-judge courtroom upheld a decrease courtroom judgment that discovered the Republican-controlled Legislature violated the state constitution by together with new legal guidelines banning college masks mandates and a sequence of different measures in unrelated funds payments.
The Supreme Courtroom agreed with lower-court decide Katherine Cooper, who sided with schooling teams, together with the Arizona College Boards Affiliation, that had argued the payments had been full of coverage objects unrelated to the funds.
Cooper’s ruling cleared the way in which for Okay-12 public colleges to proceed requiring college students to put on face masks to assist gradual the unfold of the coronavirus. A minimum of 29 of the state’s public college districts issued masks mandates earlier than the legal guidelines had been set to take impact, and a few instantly prolonged them after Cooper’s ruling.
White Home works to counter misinformation about children vaccines
As they enthusiastically welcomed the coronavirus vaccine for kids ages 5-11, members of the White Home COVID-19 response crew made some extent Wednesday to inform mother and father in regards to the significance of the pictures, in addition to their security and efficacy.
Most notably, the consultants sought to warn mother and father about what Surgeon Normal Vivek Murthy known as “the wave of misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines that’s coming their means.’’
Murthy stated the federal government is making an attempt to counter these bogus claims with outreach efforts involving trusted sources equivalent to docs, lecturers and religion leaders, in addition to organizations well-known to oldsters, together with the American Academy of Pediatrics.
“Many mother and father are already seeing inaccurate claims on social media, textual content threads and of their in-boxes,’’ Murthy stated. “Misinformation robs them of (the power to make knowledgeable selections). That’s why I’m asking mother and father to please search solutions from credible sources, like their physician, their native hospital, their native well being division or the CDC.’’
Fellow crew members Drs. Rochelle Walensky and Anthony Fauci underscored that, whereas older adults are extra weak to COVID-19, the virus has contaminated almost 2 million kids ages 5-11, sending 8,300 of them to a hospital. One-third of these children required therapy in an ICU.
Now there’s a device to stop a lot of these sicknesses.
“Pediatric vaccination has the ability to assist us obtain wholesome, protected and inclusive environments for our kids,’’ Walensky stated.
— Jorge L. Ortiz
Contributing: The Related Press