Though it isn’t officially approved, many expect the U.S. Food and Drug Administration soon will permit children as young as 5 to get a covid-19 vaccination. One person anxious for approval is Jenn Sillett, a 43-year-old Hempfield mother of three — including a son, 8, and a daughter, 9. “I
Almost a year into the covid-19 pandemic, feeling stressed is an understatement, Jenn Sillett said.
The 42-year-old mother of three has not set foot inside a store or restaurant for the better part of the past year, only leaving her Hempfield home to take her 19-year-old daughter, Sierra Williams, to her job at a day care or to do curbside pickup for groceries and other items.
Sillett, who does medical billing for UPMC, has worked from home for months as she navigates through complications from Langerhans cell histiocytosis, a rare disorder that causes some white blood cells to multiply excessively and form tumors after building up in certain areas of the body.