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Vaccines open for 12-17 year olds

Pfizer

Saint Claire HealthCare received its first allocation of the Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine this week, just as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration expanded the emergency use to include adolescents as young as 12 years of age.

While SCH has administered at least one dose of the Moderna vaccine to more than 11-thousand patients since January, vaccines were only available to patients 18 and older until now.

SCH Chief Medical Officer Dr. Will Melahn says all residents to be vaccinated as soon as they are able to do so.

  Melahn says medical staff at Saint Claire have all agreed to be vaccinated, but the organization has not yet made it a requirement.  He hopes to see more organizations make vaccination mandatory for employment.