Southern Nevada Health District to begin offering COVID-19 vaccines for children ages 6 months to 5 years

LAS VEGAS — The Southern Nevada Well being District will start providing COVID-19 vaccines to youngsters 6 months to five years of age starting Wednesday, June 22, 2022, at its clinics. The Well being District will initially have the Pfizer vaccine, a three-dose collection, accessible in its clinics. The announcement follows suggestions by the Facilities of Illness Management and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for each the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines and authorization to be used by the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration.

“We’re happy to lastly be capable to supply the COVID-19 vaccines to assist defend our youngest residents,” stated Dr. Fermin Leguen, District Well being Officer for the Southern Nevada Well being District. “Households have made extraordinary sacrifices these previous few years to guard their youngsters and their most susceptible members. The provision of the vaccines for youthful youngsters is one other important step in our ongoing efforts to mitigate the affect of the pandemic on our neighborhood,” stated Dr. Leguen.

• The Pfizer vaccine is allowed for youngsters 6 months to 4 years of age and is a three-dose collection. The second dose is run three weeks after the primary dose. The third dose is run no less than eight weeks after the second dose. (Out there in Well being District clinics starting Wednesday, June 22.)
• The Moderna vaccine is allowed for youngsters ages 6 months to five years of age in a two-dose collection, with the second dose administered after 28 days. (Initially unavailable in Well being District clinics.)

As of June 13, the Well being District is reporting 13,868 circumstances of COVID-19 in youngsters underneath the age of 4 and three deaths. Many youngsters who get COVID-19 will expertise gentle signs. Nonetheless, some will expertise extra extreme sickness or develop long-term signs.

“I’d encourage mother and father and guardians to convey their youngsters in to get vaccinated as quickly as doable,” stated Dr. Cort Lohff, Chief Medical Officer for the Well being District. “That is the time of 12 months we begin reminding the neighborhood in regards to the significance of back-to-school immunizations, and that is yet another step mother and father can take to assist guarantee their youngsters have a more healthy begin to the varsity 12 months,” stated Dr. Lohff.

Based on the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC), greater than 591 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered within the U.S. since December 14, 2020. The vaccines underwent a rigorous course of to make sure their security and effectiveness and proceed to endure probably the most intensive security monitoring in U.S. historical past.

Well being District COVID-19 clinic location data is accessible at www.snhd.information/covid-vaccine.