“We’ve now given millions of vaccines to children, and it is safe and efficacious. As we’re bringing down our guard, as we’re getting back to normal, let’s protect our kids and give them the vaccine so that they’ll have a wonderful school year,” Dr. Mora said. “It not only protects them, but also protects their grandparents, their community, our country because kids are often vectors of transmission and it’ll keep their schools open.
“We haven’t seen children cases with monkey pox here in Chicago and that is something very promising,” Dr. Luna said. “The vaccines are now being rolled out. In Europe, we’re starting to see down sloping of those cases and whatever we see in Europe is later on reflected here in the United States. So we hope that the chances of seeing a child in Chicago with MPV are less than zero.”
“If someone is very immunocompromised at the home, then they might consider masking the child, especially for example, a grandparent who is undergoing chemotherapy or radiation for cancer or some or a brother or sister or a newborn child in the home as well.“Flu season is coming up now very quickly. It’s right around the corner in September and is very detrimental in children and the elderly, it attacks those two extremes in ages.
“Especially now, they’re heading back into the nurseries, into pre-K, et cetera. We’ve given millions of vaccines in these age groups, myself included, I’ve given them to kids as young as six months, and they all have done well,” Dr. Mora said.
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