Fairbanks youth 12 to 15 years old can get a Pfizer vaccine this week to protect them from the Covid-19 virus, slow the community transmission and allow teenagers do the things they love, health officials said.
Following the emergency use authorization of the Pfizer vaccine for adolescents, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices approved and recommended it on Wednesday, finding the vaccine effective and safe for the 12 to 15 age group.
âThe side effect profile for the vaccine has been very similar to adults â which is a sore arm, fatigue, maybe fever and feeling a little ill, but those last just a couple of days,â said Dr. Michelle Nace, a pediatrician at Tanana Valley Clinic and Fairbanks Memorial Hospital. âThe efficacy has been even better than for adults â it was 100% effective in the group where they did the study, which is very encouraging.â
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US vaccine apartheid denounced amid inequitable access to COVID-19 vaccine Xinhua | Updated: 2021-04-27 14:18
A man receives his second dose of a (COVID-19) vaccine at the Chief Andrew Isaac Health Center in Fairbanks, Alaska, US on March 30, 2021. [Photo/Agencies]
WASHINGTON As the United States is hoarding COVID-19 vaccines, many developing countries are still struggling to get access to doses, with exacerbating inequality of vaccine access, according to US media. In India, just 1.4 percent of the population has been fully vaccinated, and overwhelmed hospitals have been running short of oxygen. Meanwhile, in the United States where one in four Americans are fully vaccinated and more than 40 percent have gotten at least the first dose, said a report published by the Washington Post on Sunday.
Alaska tribal health groups distribute shots far, wide
Memories of past flu, tuberculosis spurs vaccination By BECKY BOHRER, Associated Press
Published: April 24, 2021, 6:00am
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6 Photos In this undated photo, provided by the Tanana Chiefs Conference, shows a team from the tribal health organization posing outside a plane before leaving for a rural vaccination clinic in Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska. Some of Alaska s highest vaccination rates among those 16 or older have been in some of its remotest, hardest-to-access communities, where the toll of past flu or tuberculosis outbreaks hasn t been forgotten. (Tanana Chiefs Conference via AP) (Paul Apfelbeck/Galena Interior Learning Academy)
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) â John Waghiyi remembers rushing his cousin to the clinic in the Bering Sea city of Savoonga in December, worried he was having a possible heart attack while out butchering a bowhead whale. Waghiyi arrived to see elders waiting in the lobby for a COVID-19 vaccine.
Waghiyi, 66, said he joined them and got a shot before returning to the coast to help finish the whale harvest.
Elders, he said, have set the tone in the Alaska Native community of 735 on the coast of isolated St. Lawrence Island. Vaccination rates for eligible residents 16 or older are among the regionâs best, with over 80% having had at least one dose, according to the regional tribal health corporation.