from: Advent Health, Central Florida Division Corporate Communications This week’s approval of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children as young as 12 is welcome news for Dr. Fatma Levent, medical director of pediatric infectious disease at AdventHealth for Children, who has treated a number of children with COVID-induced pneumonia and multisystem inflammatory syndrome. “We highly recommend the vaccine,” said Levent on AdventHealth's morning briefing on Thursday, May 13. “It is very safe and effective.” Levent and Dr. Sarah Li, an AdventHealth Medical Group pediatrician practicing in Winter Garden, said that while many children with COVID-19 are asymptomatic or show only mild symptoms, some previously healthy kids develop severe illness with potential long-term consequences.