Valley City\u00a0 (CCHD) This week, a decision is expected to be made on distributing the Pfizer vaccine for children 5-11 years old.<\/p>\n
City County Health in Valley City reports that when a decision is made by the FDA, the local health district will decide on the distribution in schools in Barnes County.<\/p>\n
State Immunization Manager Molly Howell, says North Dakota placed an order for 18,000 doses of the pediatric Pfizer vaccine, which will then be distributed to 214 health care facilities statewide.<\/p>\n
The pediatric Pfizer vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds has a lower dosage compared to the COVID-19 vaccine for people 12 and up \u2014 about one-third as strong. The pediatric Pfizer vaccine is two shots given three weeks apart. Clinical trial data among children ages 5 to 11, which was released by Pfizer,<\/a> showed the pediatric vaccine had a 90.7% efficacy rate in preventing symptomatic COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Valley City\u00a0 (CCHD) This week, a decision is expected to be made on distributing the Pfizer vaccine for children 5-11 years old. City County Health in Valley City reports that when a decision is made by the FDA, the local health district will decide on the distribution in schools in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":221120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237910"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238051,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237910\/revisions\/238051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/221120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}