Cherokee Nation offering COVID-19 vaccine to kids 5 and up

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TULSA, Okla. — The Cherokee Nation is getting a leap connected COVID-19 vaccines for children 5 and up.

The people began offering the vaccine for kids starting connected Thursday. In total, the Cherokee Nation gave 32 pediatric Pfizer shots astatine their session connected the archetypal day.

The exigency usage authorization for kids 5 and up came retired conscionable 2 days ago.

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In Tahlequah, there's a caller radical of faces showing up to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

"It's conscionable a alleviation that they person an added furniture of protection," says Chrissi Nimmo.

The Cherokee Nation is 1 of the archetypal successful the country to get the pediatric COVID-19 vaccines retired to the nationalist conscionable days aft the national government's approval.

"Almost arsenic soon arsenic we got the connection that they had been approved for this property group, Cherokee Nation was advertizing that we had them disposable for kids, careless of Indian presumption oregon insurance," Nimmo says.

Nimmo didn't question whether to get her children vaccinated. Being told they were disposable and harmless was capable for her to bring her children to the session to get their vaccine.

"Mom made maine consciousness a small amended due to the fact that she said we tin get crystal pick astatine the end," says Mattie Nimmo.

Doctors impulse parents to work retired to their child's doc for questions.

"I americium Cherokee and I'm a parent," says Dr. Emma Harp of Cherokee Nation Outpatient Health Center. "After this week is over, each 4 of my children volition beryllium vaccinated. I deliberation it's important for parents to person discussions with their pediatricians astir what questions they have."

The Cherokee Nation's extremity is to support everyone - autochthonal and non-native. Dr. Harp says getting these vaccines retired rapidly to each ages has immense taste implications.

”Unfortunately arsenic a tribal community, we’ve been deed truly hard with COVID-19," Dr. Harp mentions. "That’s thing we’ve each been done arsenic a community. That’s thing we privation to mitigate and eradicate arsenic soon arsenic possible.”

The people is offering the Pfizer pediatric vaccine astatine each of their outpatient clinics. They volition beryllium disposable for everyone from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays done Fridays with oregon without an appointment.

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