Area health providers preparing to distribute COVID-19 vaccines for very young children

DAYTON — Ohio is expecting COVID-19 vaccines for very young children to arrive Monday.

This has vaccine providers in the Miami Valley area preparing to dole out vaccines to the public.

The Director of the state’s health department, Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff, said parents can go to pediatrician officers, family physicians, hospitals, pharmacies, federally qualified health centers and local health departments for the vaccines.

A spokesperson for Public Health: Dayton and Montgomery County said the agency is still trying to figure out the date they will be able to start giving vaccines.

For some parents the question isn’t when, it’s if they will give their child the vaccine.

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“Personally I don’t give my kids the COVID vaccine but the other vaccines I do like the flu and stuff. I want to, I don’t know, see how it works on everybody else’s kids first,” Jalissa Phipps of Dayton said.

Tasheya Isreal shared that she is also skeptical.

“I’m just iffy about it, I don’t know and I’d have to see how everybody would react to it first before I’d put me or my child on it,” Isreal said.

While these parents aren’t sure, a Springboro doctor is confident about the vaccines’ safety and efficacy.

“It seems very positive it has worked well as well as it has in older kids and adults. It’s protecting kids from hospitalizations, the things that we’re kind of most concerned about,” Dr. Greg Eberhart of Cornerstone Pediatrics previously told News Center 7.

The spokesperson for Public Health Dayton and Montgomery County said they will have more exact information once the vaccines become available to them.

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