Question: What do you do on the Texas Medical Association's Task Force?
Answer:
"So the Texas Medical Association and COVID-19 Task Force is a group of physicians from across Texas. So I represent East Texas as well as the pediatric perspective. We review the most important and up-to-date information about COVID-19 across the country, and specifically what's happening in Texas. We also help educate other physicians about COVID-19."
Question: W
Answer:
"So the vaccine that has been approved for 12 to 15-year-olds is the Pfizer vaccine, it's one of the mRNA vaccines. So it helps instruct your body to make an antibody against one of the really important spike proteins on the COVID-19 virus. It works the same way in teenagers as it does in adults. But when they started doing the original studies on it, they just were studying adults. So then once it was approved for adults are actually, as they were gaining that approval for adults. Pfizer started testing on teenagers as well. And so they now have studied a large number of children who are 12 to 15 and feel comfortable with sharing that data with the FDA."