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Two-dose vaccines are approved for emergency use for ages 16 and older.
The person had underlying health conditions, but county epidemiologist Alvina Chu says it’s a reminder that young people can get serious cases of the disease.
The Florida Department of Health has confirmed that an 18-year-old is the youngest person in Orange County to die from complications related to COVID-19.
The person had underlying health conditions, but county epidemiologist Alvina Chu says it’s a reminder that young people can still get serious cases of the disease.
“This particular case, this youngest person that we now have who has recently died, highlights the urgency of individuals for all of us, even those in the younger age groups, to get vaccinated and to stay on guard and continue our pandemic precautions,” Chu says.
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The week after the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevent recommended a pause of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, Central Florida community leaders and health officials are sounding the alarm that demand for all COVID vaccinations is waning. Thousands of appointments are still open this week in Orange and Seminole counties, and Lake and Volusia counties are drawing fewer residents to their mass vaccinations sites.
Three days after federal health officials recommended a “pause” in use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, Father José Rodríguez began to see the fallout he’d feared. In his east Orange County neighborhood, where the Episcopal priest had worked for months to persuade the largely Latino population to get vaccinated, residents due for their second dose of Moderna were backing out. “The .