Our goal at Pediatric Partners is to keep all our patients and their families healthy, and not only to treat illness when it occurs, but to help prevent children from severe life-threatening illness caused by vaccine preventable diseases.
Compared to adults, younger children have been overall less severely affected by COVID, but many children have gone on to develop a severe late onset illness called MIS-C, and many have died. Currently as the older population has been vaccinated, the number of cases in children and young adults is now rising dramatically, and many of these patients are hospitalized and in the ICU.
Children do have a strong immune system which will actually help them respond to the vaccine more effectively and safely, and will protect them from severe illness.
In addition, the more people that are vaccinated, both adults and children, will help to create herd immunity and eventually eradicate this virus entirely.
Pediatric Partners continues to recommend timely vaccination with all the currently recommended vaccines for children, and we also strongly recommend you protect your children and yourselves by getting the COVID-19 vaccine.
At Pediatric Partners we appreciate and understand that some of our patients and parents have questions or concerns about the COVID-19 vaccine, Cplease visit our website to view additional information and FAQs from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) that can help answer additional questions you may have.