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Why a Florence pediatrician s family enrolled in Cincinnati Children s COVID-19 vaccine trial I felt like it was really important
Starting Thursday, Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana will begin administering the COVID-19 vaccine to anyone between 12 and 15 years old. A Florence pediatrician enrolled her four kids in the COVID-19 clinical vaccine trial at Cincinnati Childrenâs.
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Starting Thursday, Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana will begin administering the COVID-19 vaccine to anyone between 12 and 15 years old. A Florence pediatrician enrolled her four kids in the COVID-19 clinical vaccine trial at Cincinnati Childrenâs.
âI talked to Ben, who was 15 at the time, and Ty, who was 13 at the time, and asked them, said Dr. Amanda Dropic. I said, âhere s the data, here s the evidence. Are you guys interested?â And they both decided that they did want to go ahead and do it.
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There is encouraging news in the war against COVID-19. The numbers of new cases in the U.S. are dropping, the number of those fully vaccinated is rising and research is finding the vaccines may be effective in adolescents.
But the U.S. is not taking its foot off the gas because health officials insist vaccination is the only way to get back to some semblance of normal. Some stats indicate the U.S. death toll from COVID is around 580,000, closing in on 600,000. Advocates say getting vaccinated is still a matter of life and death.
So now, a new army of foot soldiers is going door to door in some communities giving the vaccines a direct voice. This comes as about a third of the country is fully vaccinated.