Covid Vaccine

Children as yound as 12 are now eligible for COVID-19 vaccines. Some teens got their vaccines in Middletown on Thursday.

Children between 12 and 15 are now eligible to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in Connecticut after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended the vaccine for the age group Wednesday. Earlier this week, Dr.  Jody Terranova, assistant professor in the Department of Pediatr...

Children ages 12 to 15 will now be eligible to receive the Pfizer vaccine in Connecticut, state officials announced Wednesday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended the vaccine for the age group Wednesday. Parents and legal guardians can sign their children up for an appointm...

Providers in Connecticut are ready to offer the COVID-19 vaccine to children 12 to 15 years old.

Connecticut education and health officials are working together to organize clinics that would give children ages 12 to 15 access to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine as soon as the federal government gives final approval for its emergency use in that age group. Clinics have been held at schools in more than 30 districts for 16- to 18-year-olds and o...

Connecticut’s COVID-19 test positivity rate came in at 2.77% Tuesday as hospitalizations continue to drop.

On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration decided to lower the age for people who can receive Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to children as young as 12 years old. Coronavirus vaccine providers in Connecticut have started to open up appointments for this age group and a pediatrician from the UConn School of Medicine has answers to questions paren...

Connecticut is preparing to begin COVID-19 vaccinations for kids ages 12 to 15 after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the Pfizer shot to be given on an emergency use basis on Monday. This now marks the youngest age group eligible to get the vaccine. At Wolcott High School, they were already preparing for the approval of the vaccine&...

The Town of Vernon is hosting what town officials are calling “You Choose” COVID-19 clinics this week where participants can pick which vaccine they’d like to receive. The first “You Choose” COVID-19 vaccination clinic is being held Tuesday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in front of the Vernon Town Hall on Park Place, officials...

Connecticut is preparing to begin vaccinations for kids ages 12 to 15 after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the Pfizer shot on Monday.

The FDA authorized the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children between 12 and 15 Monday and the state Department of Health is urging providers to be ready. On Monday, the state Department of Health reached out to COVID-19 Vaccine Providers prior to the FDA’s decision, urging those that administer the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to be prepared to upd...

The FDA approved Pfizer and BioNTech’s request to allow their Covid-19 vaccine to be given to kids ages 12 to 15 on an emergency use basis.