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Health official: Hitting vaccination goal hinges on individual choices
This story appeared in the Petoskey News-Review. Read more here. As vaccination efforts continue across Northern Michigan, the goal for the Health Department of Northwest Michigan remains the same. "We are still striving for the goal of 70% of the population being...
Teens and adults miss 26 million doses of CDC-recommended vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic, study finds
This story appeared in USA Today. Read more here. As Americans get vaccinated against the coronavirus, a report published Wednesday found teens and adults may have missed millions of routine vaccinations recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in...
The coming flu season may be severe. Here’s why
This story appeared in CNN. Read more here. The coming flu season may be a doozy. Even as coronavirus was devastating populations around the world, killing 3.7 million people globally, doctors and public health officials noticed something else was missing: There was...
COVID vaccines for kids under 12 could be approved this fall
This story appeared in Crain's Detroit Business. Read more here. Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE's COVID-19 vaccine will be tested in children less than 12 years old in a late-stage study seeking to extend protection across the entire range of ages. The vaccine partners...
Pfizer expands vaccine testing to kids under 12 years old
This story appeared in FOX 17 News. Read more here. Pfizer announced Tuesday that they would be expanding testing of their COVID-19 vaccine on children under 12 years old and as young as 6 months. The new trials include 4,500 children in that age range who will...
Studies Confirm COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Safe, Effective for Pregnant Women
This story appeared in the National Institute of Health blog. Read more here. Clinical trials have shown that COVID-19 vaccines are remarkably effective in protecting those age 12 and up against infection by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. The expectation was that they...
I’m a Pediatrician. Get Your Child Vaccinated.
This story appeared in The Atlantic. Read more here. When I was in medical school in the 1980s, a surgeon came to my clinical-medicine course to talk about how to guide patients in making decisions. He presented a scenario in which a patient with breast cancer had to...
The One Thing We’re Doing Before Leaving Quarantine
We're so grateful to the Worthey family for partnering with us to share their family’s story. View their full blog post here. From day one of being parents, we’ve done the same thing to grow three healthy and kind human beings. We sang and talked to them in the womb,...
COVID-19 Vaccine Trials Underway For Kids 5 And Younger
This story appeared in NPR. Read more here. Eloise LaCour clutches her dolly as a nurse takes her blood pressure, then swabs the 3-year-old's delicate arm with alcohol. "Tickle tickle," says Eloise's mom, Angelica LaCour. She's trying to get a smile. "Mommy's going to...
COVID Vaccines and Kids: 20 Things to Know
This story appeared in the U of M Health Blog. Read more here. The country recently reached a highly anticipated milestone when adolescents and younger teens became eligible for Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine. And more than half a million kids aged 12 to 15 have already...