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Practice brings comfort before real vaccine shot

Practice brings comfort before real vaccine shot
Clinic helps special needs people, those with needle fears
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Daniel Arana, 20, blows soap bubbles in the post-shot waiting area with his mother Yolanda following his mock vaccination April 11 at Friendship Foundation in Redondo Beach, Calif. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times)
LOS ANGELES Margie Garcia, the mother of an 18-year-old with autism, desperately wants her son to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
But she fears that the sight of the syringe could trigger his anxiety, causing him to run away or tackle someone.
So last week, her son, Niko, made a practice run at a mock clinic along with dozens of other young adults and children with developmental disabilities. He went through a registration process, then a nurse placed a syringe needle-less against his arm and stamped the spot with a bandage. Afterward, he sat in an observation area, wearing red headphones to ....

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When needles strike fear, practice comes before the COVID-19 vaccine

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Margie Garcia, the mother of an 18-year-old with autism, desperately wants her son to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
But she fears that the sight of the syringe could trigger his anxiety, causing him to run away or tackle someone.
So last week, her son, Niko, made a practice run at a mock clinic along with dozens of other young adults and children with developmental disabilities. He went through a registration process, then a nurse placed a syringe needle-less against his arm and stamped the spot with a bandage. Afterward, he sat in an observation area, wearing red headphones to block out any unexpected noise. All around him in the parking lot floated bubbles and balloons. ....

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