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May
13
2021
By The African Mirror
Should my teen get the COVID-19 vaccine?

Should my teen get the COVID-19 vaccine?

COVID-19
MICHAEL ERMAN THE U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for use in children as young as 12, widening the country's inoculation program as vaccination rates have slowed significantly. The following information should help parents deciding whether to inoculate their adolescent children. IS THE VACCINE SAFE FOR 12-15 YEAR OLDS? The FDA found the vaccine to be safe and effective in Pfizer's clinical trial. That trial included 2,260 participants in that age group, half of whom received the same vaccine dose given to adults. The other half got a placebo as a comparison group. The…
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Sep
26
2020
By The African Mirror
There’s only one way to protect women and children from the pandemic: cooperation

There’s only one way to protect women and children from the pandemic: cooperation

HEALTH
VIVIAN M LOPEZ GOOD news first: more than a billion children were vaccinated over the past decade. Maternal deaths declined by 35 per cent since 2000. Deaths of children under five reached an all-time low in 2019, a year when more girls were attending school than ever before. The progress was not universal, of course. Women and children living in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia accounted for over 80 percent of under-5 deaths and maternal deaths. Then, in just a few short months, the COVID-19 pandemic set back this progress, reversing hard-won advances in maternal and child health, women’s rights,…
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