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It’s official: your 12-16 year-old kids can roll up their sleeves and take the Pfizer vaccine.
While children are less likely to pick up the COVID-19 virus, and will be far less likely to have a hard time with it if they do, they CAN still catch it. If they have low- or no symptoms they can also be unwitting carriers to adults and high-risk loved ones.
Area doctors are enthusiastic while the Craven County Schoolboard is helping spread the word to parents and organizations.
“The short answer: I think it’s fabulous,” Dr. Rad Moeller, vice-president of the North Carolina Rheumatology, who practices in New Bern and Havelock, said. Moeller has been closely tracking the vaccine development since its earliest stages.
No word has come yet regarding the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, but chances are it’s coming to Craven County.
The vaccine has been announced with varying amounts of enthusiasm but according to Dr. Rad Moeller, a rheumatologist with CarolinaEast and president of the North Carolina Rheumatology Association who has been keeping close track of the COVID vaccines as they’ve developed, it is a mixed bag whose pluses outnumber its minuses.
The minus is simple: its efficacy rate to protect you from catching the virus is far lower than its current competitors, Moderna and Pfizer.
The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines are mRNA-based that the CDC reports is a “new approach”: “To trigger an immune response, many vaccines put a weakened or inactivated germ into our bodies. Not mRNA vaccines. Instead, they teach our cells how to make a protein or even just a piece of a protein that triggers an immune response inside our bodies.”The Johnson & Johnson vaccine however is – sigh – that “o
This is not your father’s vaccine.
Forget polio, chicken pox, yellow fever – even flu vaccines. The Coronavirus vaccines are like no other and that, in part, is why they were developed so quickly.
“These are totally different than the vaccines we’ve had in the past,” according to Rad Moeller, a rheumatologist practicing with CarolinaEast Internal Medicine at Havelock and president-elect of the North Carolina Rheumatology Association.
Vaccines work by introducing the virus they are aimed to fight into your bloodstream. The earliest vaccine was developed by Edward Jenner in 1796. Smallpox was ravaging Europe and America – a virus with a 30 percent kill rate. Survivors – George Washington was one – were left with scars as a memento of their deadly battle. Jenner noticed that farm girls in the country were somehow evading the deadly disease and realized they were developing immunity by association with cowpox – a virus similar to smallpox but not nearly so deadly and