{"id":255201,"date":"2021-11-03T11:22:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T16:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/?p=255201"},"modified":"2021-11-03T23:19:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T04:19:21","slug":"covid-19-vaccinations-for-younger-children-begins-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/covid-19-vaccinations-for-younger-children-begins-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Vaccinations for Younger Children Begins this Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-240 Component-p-0-2-231\">ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) \u2014 Gov. Tim Walz said Wednesday health care providers and others will begin vaccinating 5- to 11-year-old children this week, now that the Pfizer coronavirus shot has received federal approval.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-240 Component-p-0-2-231\">The vaccine will arrive in waves this week and that Minnesota providers have ordered as many doses as possible from the federal government, Walz said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-240 Component-p-0-2-231\">More than 500,000 children across Minnesota are now eligible for the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-240 Component-p-0-2-231\">\u201cGetting our children vaccinated will help our kids be kids again,\u201d said Walz. \u201cNow that the vaccine is approved for kids ages 5-11, Minnesota is ready to administer these shots quickly, efficiently, and equitably. I encourage families to make a plan to get their child vaccinated and help keep them safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-240 Component-p-0-2-231\">The state has launched a new webpage to help parents and guardians of 5- to 11-year-old children find a vaccine and answer questions they may have. The website is <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mn.gov\/covid19\/vaccine\/vaxforkids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mn.gov\/vaxforkids<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-240 Component-p-0-2-231\">Dr. Marc Gorelick, president and CEO of Children\u2019s Minnesota, called the vaccination of youngsters a \u201cmilestone moment\u201d in the fight against COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-240 Component-p-0-2-231\">\u201cAs the largest pediatric provider in the state, Children\u2019s Minnesota has seen first-hand the pandemic\u2019s direct and indirect effect on kids. Not only can kids get seriously sick enough to require ICU care, but they\u2019ve also had to struggle through distance learning, time away from friends, and even isolation from grandparents,\u201d Gorelick said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) \u2014 Gov. Tim Walz said Wednesday health care providers and others will begin vaccinating 5- to 11-year-old children this week, now that the Pfizer coronavirus shot&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":254801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97,51,6475,1,6449],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}