Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccine

Getting your child the pediatric COVID vaccine may be one of the most important steps you can take to keep your child safe from contracting coronavirus.

Most young children and all teenagers can now receive the COVID-19 vaccine. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends everyone ages 6 months and older get this important vaccine to protect themselves and others from COVID-19 and its complications.

girl getting covid vaccine

Who Can Get a Vaccine?

During the COVID Pandemic, Parker Pediatrics was pleased to be a provider of the COVID-19 Vaccines to our patients, their families, and other community members.  Since the Pandemic Protocols and Provisions ended in May, we are now only administering the current COVID vaccine exclusively to our patients.   Call the office to check availability and schedule into a existing appointment or nurse clinic.

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Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccine Information

  • Ages 6 Months to 4 Years:  Pfizer 2023-2024
  • Ages 5 to 11:  Pfizer 2023-2024
  • Ages 12 and Up:  Pfizer 2023-2024

  • Ages 6 months to 4 years:  Must be at least 6 months to 4 years of age on date of vaccine.
    • If previous COVID vaccines have been received, then only one dose is required.
    • For those children in this age group who have not received any other COVID vaccine, three doses are required.
      • Second Dose:  21 days (3 weeks) after first dose.
      • Third Dose:  8 weeks after second dose.
  • For all other age groups, only one dose is required regardless of previous vaccine status.
    • If a COVID vaccine was recently received, it must be at least eight weeks from this dose to receive the 2023-2024 vaccine.

Can Children Get Covid?

Children are as likely as adults to become infected with the virus that causes COVID-19, and like adults, children and teens who have had COVID-19 can also get very sick and develop serious complications from the disease. This is especially true for children with underlying health conditions, such as cancer or diabetes. Multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) is a condition in which different parts of a child’s body become inflamed. MIS-C can cause inflammation of a child’s heart, lungs, brain, kidneys, eyes, skin, or gastrointestinal organs. Doctors have reported more than 2,300 cases of MIS-C in children ages 5 to 11 years old since the beginning of the pandemic.