SNOW HILL, Md.- The Worcester County Health Department is holding a combined COVID-19 vaccine clinic for youth aged 5-11 years old in addition to a flu vaccine clinic for ages 6 months to 17-years-old.
The clinic will take place from 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 13, at the Snow Hill Health Department (6040 Public Landing Rd, Snow Hill) and will provide the Pfizer COVID vaccine.
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), widespread vaccination for COVID-19 is a critical tool to best protect everyone, especially those at highest risk, from severe illness and death. People who are fully vaccinated can safely resume many activities that they did prior to the pandemic. Children ages 5 years and older are able to get an age-appropriate dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
Additionally from the CDC: although children are at a lower risk of becoming severely ill with COVID-19 compared with adults, children can:
- Be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19
- Get very sick from COVID-19
- Have both short and long-term health complications from COVID-19
- Spread COVID-19 to others
Children with underlying medical conditions are more at risk for severe illness from COVID-19 compared with children without underlying medical conditions. Children who get infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 can also develop serious complications like multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C)—a condition where different body parts become inflamed, including the heart, lungs, kidneys, brain, skin, eyes, or gastrointestinal organs.
Influenza (flu) is a potentially serious disease that can lead to hospitalization and sometimes even death. Every flu season is different, and flu can affect people differently, but millions of people get flu every year, hundreds of thousands of people are hospitalized and thousands to tens of thousands of people die from flu-related causes every year. Visit CDC.gov/flu to learn more.
For more information about COVID-19 and flu vaccines or to schedule an appointment, visit WorcesterHealth.org. If you have any questions, you can call 667-253-2140 Monday through Friday 8am-5pm.
