COVID booster shots are now available for children ages 5 to 11 in Los Angeles County.
"The children who got boosted were so much less likely to even get infected," Los Angeles County Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer said."And you know if you don't get infected, two things — you can't pass it on to anybody else and you can't get sick. So it's super important that we try to protect ourselves as much as we can."after the FDA issued an emergency use authorization last week, as new cases and hospitalizations have surged across the country.
The average daily rate of people testing positive for the virus went up to 3.7%, up from 3.5% a day earlier, in Los Angeles County. Last week, Ferrer said the rate of hospital beds occupied by COVID-positive patients is roughly 1.7%. State public health officials say the surge in infections fueled by Omicron and its subvariants showed that children are also vulnerable to the current wave of the virus. Children 5-11 should receive a single booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at least five months after completing their primary series, officials said.
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