Potential for COVID-19 Vaccine for Adolescents Brings Hope for School Reopenings
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Both Carmona and Geo contracted COVID last fall. He had no symptoms, but she suffered a 103.5-degree fever, lost her sense of taste and smell, became dizzy and nauseous, was often out of breath, and had “the worst headache imaginable.”
Around the same time, Carmona’s grandmother also got COVID and spent more than a month in intensive care before dying.
After that suffering and loss, Carmona said she is determined to protect her son and the rest of her family from COVID and that means keeping Geo home from school.
“It’s not worth it,” Carmona said. “It’s not worth risking it a little bit even, especially for our children.”