Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine – Here’s why doctors recommend it for tweens and teens 12 years and above! Parental concerns addressed

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TL;DR - The vaccine is not rushed. Safety in trials was not compromised. Risk from COVID-19 is far greater than any side effects from the vaccine itself. Teens are at risk for catching long-term COVID complications. Also, teen deaths are not zero. Teens have died! If we want to enjoy our graduations, summer programs, and get our lives back, we need to get vaccinated so we don't spread the virus and speed up ending the pandemic.

Professional Pediatrician Dr. Angela Dangvu offerts information about the safety of the Covid-19 vaccine for children and teenagers

Dr. Angela Dangvu, Pediatrician

Is the vaccine safe for teens and kids? Are there other risks for teenagers and children that might not be present for adults?

The Pfizer vaccine is absolutely safe for children ages 12-15 years and teens ages 16 years and older. In clinical trials, enough teens and children participated to show that the vaccine is safe for 12-year-olds and older. We have no reason to expect that children would tolerate the vaccine less favorably than adults would.

Family Physician - The risks of Covid for Children and Teenagers
Dr. Gretchen LaSalle, Family Physician
Teenage sons of professional Physician getting covid-19 vaccine

Dr. Gretchen LaSalle, Family Physician

I am a parent to two teenage boys, ages 14 and 17. They are back to in-person school. Both are involved in band...And my oldest is headed back to school sports (including basketball, with its indoor location and its up close, in-your-face contact)...I don’t worry as much about letting them get back to the activities that they love. They will be protected from serious harm. And they will be less likely to spread COVID to their friends or family members, some of whom are older or have immune compromising conditions.

As a doctor and a mother, I wouldn’t recommend anything for your child that I wouldn’t do for my own. Our children are our most precious possessions (not really possessions but you get my drift). I make the choice to vaccinate my children against COVID and all other vaccine-preventable diseases because I know the risk of the disease is SO much greater than any extremely rare risk of the immunization itself.

Well, there you have it. My advice? Vaccinate your teens and pre-teens. Vaccinations protect our health and our wondrous human potential. And they will be the fastest path back to some semblance of normalcy in our children’s lives.

The facts about the benefits of the COVID-19 vaccine are clear and support the assumption that in order to end the pandemic and get back to our normal lives, vaccination is inevitable.

COVID-19 vaccine is safe, tested on millions up to this point and not rushed.

  • Safety in trials was not compromised
  • The risk from COVID-19 is far greater than any side effects from the vaccine itself.
  • Teens are at risk for catching long-term COVID complications.
  • Teen deaths are not zero. Teens have died! 

 

If we want to enjoy our graduations, summer programs, and get our lives back, we need to get vaccinated so we don't spread the virus and speed up ending the pandemic.

 

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