State health officials share update on COVID vaccinations for kids

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OKLAHOMA CITY — COVID-19 vaccinations for Oklahoma children property 5 to 11 years aged are good underway.

Friday day the Oklahoma State Department of Health reported 7,949 children successful the 5 to 11 property scope already received their archetypal dose.

To enactment this into perspective, determination are 375,000 kids eligible successful this group.

With that said, the interim commissioner of wellness says they aren’t seeing a unreserved to the doorway for these kid vaccinations.

“We admit that with this property radical there's astir apt going to beryllium a much caution attack by parents, truthful our extremity is to conscionable guarantee that we marque definite that it continues to beryllium disposable and that we person the proviso determination that we person the appointments disposable and we marque it arsenic casual arsenic imaginable for those individuals to marque that decision," said Keith Reed, interim commissioner of health.

Reed says determination are immoderate areas that are reporting radical who are precise anxious to get their kids vaccinated.

But they don’t expect to person arsenic precocious of a vaccination percent successful children similar that of the 65 positive population.

According to the CDC COVID-19 information tracker, arsenic of November 10th, 77 percent of Tulsa County residents 12 and up person received astatine slightest 1 dose of the vaccine.

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