'All children should be vaccinated' - Monroe parents excited over approval of COVID-19 vaccine for ages 12-15
Now that children as young as 12 years old can get the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, parents in Monroe say they couldn't be happier.
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May 12, 2021, 9:29 PM
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Updated 1,078 days ago
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257ds agoNow that children as young as 12
years old can get the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, parents in Monroe say they
couldn't be happier.
Nancy Sorge from
Monroe says she has been waiting for her 13-year-old son, Raymond, to get a
vaccine. He suffers from epilepsy.
She says the
pandemic has left her son isolated, and she wants him and other kids in school
to be protected.
"All children
should be vaccinated," Sorge says. "We need
to stop COVID. It was a really, really tough year."
Chrissy Martinez,
who works with special education students in Monroe, says she's already made an
appointment for her 14-year-old daughter Kendyl.
Dr. Nimrod Dayan,
a pediatrician and advisor to Monroe Public Schools, says while many of the
teachers are vaccinated, it's just as important for kids to be.
Doctors say
vaccination clinics are being set up for 12 to 15-year-olds in the area.
