How will new CDC mask changes impact the risk for children under the age of 12?
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Children under 12 aren’t eligible to get vaccinated and likely won’t be able to receive the shot for several months. That means families are facing a lot of difficult decisions about what’s safe and what isn’t.
“I was really excited. I got my news update on my phone and I screamed and came down here and said, ‘Oh my gosh, the FDA approved it,’” recalled 13-year-old Megan Sims.
Sims was among the first of the Metro Detroit teenagers to get the Pfizer vaccine, but her 10-year-old sister isn’t eligible yet. Their father, Dr. Matthew Sims, is Beaumont Health System’s director of infectious disease research.
With the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s approval Wednesday of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccines for those age 12 to 15, just under 500,000 more people in Michigan are now eligible for the vaccine, said Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, Michigan s chief deputy director for health and a mother of two children.
And, Khaldun said, children also can get other vaccinations at the same time as they get their COVID-19 shot with their medical provider.
On Thursday, parents and teens headed out to vaccination clinics in metro Detroit to get their first of two shots.
Dia Berry of Dearborn Heights brought his twin 14-year-old daughters, Sirine and Elissar Berry, to a Walgreens pharmacy on Ecorse Road in Taylor on Thursday morning to get their first doses.
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Southfield Megan Sims, 13, said she screamed when she heard she was now eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccine. I went downstairs and told my mom and dad They approved it! she said. I was so excited.
Megan was among the first group of Metro Detroit teens to get the first dose of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine Thursday through Beaumont Health, a day after U.S. health officials endorsed use of the vaccine in kids as young as 12 and Michigan health officials followed suit.
She got her vaccine before noon at the Beaumont Service Center off Northwestern Highway near Lasher in Southfield.
Warner Bros., DC to select Black director for Black Superman movie
Author Ta-Nehisi Coates is writing the screenplay for the upcoming film
JJ Abrams is set to executive produce the long-awaited Black
Superman movie but he is not being considered to helm the project because Warner Bros. and DC are committed to hiring a Black director.
A DC insider told
The Hollywood Reporter that having Abrams direct would be “tone-deaf,” most especially amid the ongoing conversation about diversity and inclusion in Hollywood.
Ta-Nehisi Coates is writing the screenplay for the upcoming film. Per THR, Coates is “crafting a Kal-El in the vein of the original Superman comics and will have the protagonist hail from Krypton and come to Earth. While the story is currently being crafted and many details could change, one option under consideration is for the film to be a 20th century period piece,” the outlet writes.
Ann Arbor park activists celebrate Earth Day with festivities, interpretive ‘Earth Dance’
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ANN ARBOR, MI – Advocates for Ann Arbor’s Center of the City Commons park celebrated Earth Day at the site starting on Thursday, April 22.
The festivities kicked off after Haber and fellow advocates set up Eric Lipson’s geodesic dome, a temporary structure they’ve used before to catch the attention of passerby and illustrate a use of the proposed gathering space at the future Center of the City Commons.
Haber and about 20 others gathered for public gathering, demonstrations and advocacy for the park. Gatherings are scheduled there through Sunday. There’s no schedule of events, however, so as not to encourage mass gathering during the pandemic.