Orange County health leaders react to Pfizer vaccine approval for children 12 and up
Vaccines could be administered as early as Thursday
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Federal health officials have opened eligibility for Pfizer’s two-dose COVID-19 vaccine to include kids between the ages of 12 and 15. The emergency use authorization was approved on Monday by the Food and Drug Administration.
Health leaders in Orange County called it the right move in the county’s effort to return to normalcy.
“I know there is a perception that young people don’t get [COVID-19] or that they might not get it as bad and that may be true on the whole, but there are some young people that can get severe complications,” epidemiologist Alvina Chu said.
Orange County reports 2 more cases of COVID-19 variant
2 of the 12 cases have been asymptomatic
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Orange County health officials announced two more cases of the U.K. variant of COVID-19, also known as the B 1.1.7 variant during a news conference on Monday.
The Florida Department of Health said of the 12 Orange County residents with the variant, none of them have required hospitalization and all of them are out of quarantine.
FDOH Epidemiologist Alvin Chu said two of the 12 patients were asymptomatic.
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“We don’t know necessarily if you have a variant until many days down the road, perhaps even weeks. Partly the random sampling, partly because the lab testing is further away from us and takes a longer time,” Chu said.
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