Thousands of families every year come to Children’s Minnesota for highly specialized medicine, from care for childhood cancer to trauma to rare diseases. And the team delivers that: Children’s Minnesota has more specialists in more disciplines than any other care system in the region.
Across Minnesota, kids 6 months and older are getting their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Adriene Thornton from Children’s Minnesota shares how she and her colleagues are helping to lead that charge by hosting vaccine clinics when and where people need it the most.
Experts weigh in on COVID-19 vaccine anxiety among teens
Parents, health experts helping hesitant teens understand more about the coronavirus vaccine
While the vaccines are open to teens in Minnesota, some parents say their kids are still hesitant to get it. Some health experts offered advice on how to reach them.
(FOX 9) - Seventeen-year-old Jacob Denzer wants his loved ones to feel safer when they’re around him, which is why he’s getting the vaccine. It’s a nice thing I can do for others and myself, he told FOX 9. It’s good for the whole community and everybody around here.