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Camila Grande is 9 years old and was the first to train online to be vaccinated against COVID-19 at Elmhurst hospital: “I just felt like it and left,” said the little girl.

While the mother of the recently vaccinated woman has other reasons to inoculate it: “It has less chance of it being infected. So, it is very good,” explains Rebecca Quiñones.

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Elmhurst Hospital was in the eye of the pandemic last year but has now become a vaccination center for families, many of them immigrants. And this week they began to vaccinate children from 5 to 11 years old.

The Pfizer vaccine for children is one-third the adult dose. The hospital administration says that to get the COVID vaccine they only need a name, address and an ID such as an expired passport or New York municipal ID. There are no immigration status or health insurance questions. The service is free and patient information will be kept confidential.

This is how Helen Arteaga, general director of the Elmhurst hospital, explains: “No more must come, enter, register your name and your information, give the information of your son or daughter and no more. Register and take the vaccine.”

After being vaccinated, children are observed for 15 minutes for any reaction to the dose. The doctors present comment that they may have side effects the next day such as fever, headache and nausea, but do not be alarmed because it is part of the development of the vaccine.

And in three weeks the minors will have to return to receive their second dose.

According to Pilar Gonzalez, a doctor at Elmhurst Hospital: “Children have to go back to their usual activities that they have always had, I mean before the pandemic.”

In addition, the parents of the children who get vaccinated will receive an incentive of $ 100 dollars: “For my girl … Happy that she already has more for the candy,” says Bernarda Celi, another mother of a family.

Elmhurst Hospital is offering the Pfizer vaccine to children Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., and no appointment is required to receive it.

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