{"id":17993,"date":"2021-11-05T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=17993"},"modified":"2021-11-04T15:57:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T19:57:18","slug":"covid-19-vaccines-available-for-5-to-11-year-olds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=17993","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Vaccines Available for 5 to 11-year-olds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Pediatric COVID-19 vaccines are now available for five to 11-year-olds. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, previously approved for everyone over 12 years old, now has a version specifically made for children ages five to 11.<\/p>\n<p>Parents and guardians have a variety of options to get their children vaccinated including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexandriava.gov\/Vaccines\">Alexandria Health Department (AHD) vaccine clinics<\/a>, as well as private providers such as pharmacies and pediatrician\u2019s offices.<\/p>\n<p>There will be enough vaccines for all children who need them, but it may take several weeks to receive the supplies needed to vaccinate all 12,000+ of Alexandria\u2019s children. Pediatric vaccine appointments at AHD clinics will be posted on a rolling basis on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexandriava.gov\/Vaccines\">alexandriava.gov\/Vaccines<\/a> as supply becomes available. For other vaccine provider locations and availability, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaccines.gov\/\">vaccines.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Minors are not able to consent to immunizations by themselves, so a parent or guardian must consent either in advance or at the vaccination site, depending on the provider. If you have a specific concern about your child, such as previous allergic reactions or adverse side effects caused by a vaccine, contact their doctor or healthcare provider to address your unique situation.<\/p>\n<p>While vaccines are a step to protect all children, ACPS does not require COVID-19 vaccination for five to 11-year-olds. Vaccines also help keep children in school and other activities since vaccinated people do not need to be quarantined if they are in close contact with someone who has COVID-19. This is critical for continued learning and a child\u2019s physical, social, and emotional health. If you have other vaccine questions, contact the AHD COVID-19 Hotline at 703-746-4988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pediatric COVID-19 vaccines are now available for five to 11-year-olds. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, previously approved for everyone over 12 years old, now has a version specifically made for children ages five to 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":17994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acps"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 08:17:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17995,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17993\/revisions\/17995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}