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Is it necessary to vaccinate children against COVID-19?
Teenagers and the COVID vaccine By Brittany Dionne | April 5, 2021 at 10:22 PM CDT - Updated April 5 at 10:22 PM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - A local health expert said vaccinating children against COVID-19 is just as important as vaccinating adults.
Although kids are less susceptible to severe COVID-19 infection, Pediatric Infectious Disease Expert Dr. Kimberlin with UAB said they play an important role in beating the pandemic.
“Until we get adequate numbers of people percentages of the population that are immune to the virus it will continue to circulate. And if it continues to circulate, it will find people like a heat-seeking missile who are most vulnerable to it and therefore most at risk of having really disease or even dying,” Kimberlin said.