Appointments are encouraged and can be made by visiting uabmedicinevaccine.org or calling 205-975-1881 for assistance.UAB Medicine will begin offering COVID-19 vaccines for children age 5 and up beginning Thursday, Nov. 11, at the Hoover Met and UAB Injection Clinic locations.
Appointments are encouraged and can be made by visiting uabmedicinevaccine.org or calling 205-975-1881 for assistance. Patients under the age of 19 must have parental or guardian consent forms signed on-site.
“The burden extends beyond case counts,” said David Kimberlin, M.D., co-director of the UAB Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. “Because of this virus, school is interrupted, which means learning is interrupted. Lives are disrupted, which means families must make difficult decisions that they shouldn’t have to make. Vaccination is the key to eliminating the interruptions and making sure our children are in school receiving the social and emotional development they need.”
The Hoover Met drive-through clinic operates Monday-Friday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. The UAB Injection Clinic operates Monday-Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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While children are much less likely than adults to have problems from a COVID-19 infection, COVID is still the 10th-leading cause of pediatric deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
The ACIP reported last week that children ages 5-11 have experienced 1.9 million cases of COVID-19 and 8,300 hospitalizations in the United States. Of those, 2,316 have had Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children and 94 have died.