NJ Teen EMS Volunteer Qualifies for COVID Dose, Can ’t Find Pfizer Vaccine

Teenage EMS volunteer qualifies for COVID vaccine, but finding Pfizer is nearly impossible https://t.co/azcJfuEpxO pic.twitter.com/Fqp6tq86oH— njdotcom (@njdotcom) January 15, 2021 Kevin Shea nj.com (MCT) Kelsey Quinones is about as frontline of a healthcare worker as you can get. She volunteers with the Cranford First Aid Squad, working 12-hour weekend shifts responding to emergencies and often taking patients to area hospitals. The work qualifies her to get the coronavirus vaccine, now, as an EMS member of Phase 1A. But Kelsey is 16 years old, and can only receive the Pfizer vaccine, which is cleared for people as young as 16. The Moderna vaccine is only for people 18 and older. While Kelsey attends high school, her mother Carole Quinones has been trying to get her daughter a vaccination appointment for well over a week now. It’s been a frustrating, dizzying swirl of emails and phone calls, none that have yielded answers, or an appointment. Carole believes her daughter and others teens who work in EMS, especially in volunteer squads, are a population overlooked by the state as it rolls out its COVID-19 vaccine process. “I feel like I’ve emailed a million people,” Carole said. “People have been super helpful, but nobody has Pfizer.” As of Thursday, the state’s COVID-19 dashboard indicated that 287,840 vaccinations had been administered and 47% of them have been Pfizer, however no one i...
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