GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) — The CDC will soon issue formal guidance on administering the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to children after approving the vaccine for kids between the ages of 5 and 11.
The head of the Wisconsin DHS Bureau of Infectious Diseases Dr. Ryan Westergaard spoke Wednesday, encouraging parents to sign their kids up.
“Getting your child vaccinated against COVID-19 not only helps protect them from long term symptoms of COVID-19,” said Westergaard. “But it also protects those around them.”
Westergaard says getting kids vaccinated is a step towards re-evaluating masks in schools.
“It is also a shared goal that we can get to the point where transmission of COVID-19 is low enough where wearing masks indoors is no longer necessary,” he told reporters.
Bellin Health intends to start giving out the vaccine to kids in that age group soon.
“We’re just gonna start,” said Bellin Health’s Sherry LaFond. “We will be starting on Friday with those vaccination efforts, and then we will expand into our primary care clinics.”
They’ll begin exclusively in their community vaccine clinics in Ashwaubenon, Marinette, and Iron Mountain.
