Parents, Kids Line Up At Convention Center For Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccine

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Hundreds of children and their parents lined up extracurricular the Baltimore Convention Center connected Saturday greeting to get their archetypal changeable of the COVID-19 vaccine.

“It felt great. It went great. He didn’t squirm. He didn’t cry. Everything, it conscionable went truly well,” said Tia Fore, parent of a vaccinated child.

Children ages 5 to 11 present tin get vaccinated aft national wellness officials cleared the mode for doses of the Pfizer vaccine for that property radical earlier this week.

Saturday was the archetypal time Baltimore metropolis was administering the changeable for those children.

“This is the adjacent large measurement successful america taking connected the pandemic and getting connected the different broadside of each this truthful that we tin scope the caller normal,” said Dr. Chuck Callahan, manager of Baltimore Convention Center Field Hospital.

Many parents had been agelong waiting for the time to get their children vaccinated, and immoderate said getting the changeable was an important measurement for some the kids and their community.

“It’s going to assistance everybody, folks backmost astatine home, each the teachers who are moving truthful hard, you know, with hundreds of students. It’s conscionable captious to get america backmost connected track,” said Julia Dooher, parent of a vaccinated child

About 515,000 Maryland children ages 5 to 11 are present eligible for the vaccine, and the authorities has started receiving its archetypal bid of 180,000 doses of it.

Many parents astatine the session are gladsome their small ones got it and are hoping much get it soon.

“I deliberation it’s truly important for each kids to get vaccinated truthful we tin beryllium backmost to our archetypal each day. No masks, having our kids beryllium escaped and not person to interest astir our kids being sick,” Fiore said.

Several pediatric vaccine clinics volition beryllium held crossed Baltimore successful the coming weeks.

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