COVID-19 Vaccines for Children Age 6 Months - 5 Years Old

Last week the Food and Drug Administration approved COVID-19 vaccines for young children age 6 months to 5 years old.  Our team reached out via social media to collect your questions and in this episode we get answers from Dr. Nava Yeganeh, Medical Director of Vaccine Preventable Disease Control in the Acute Communicable Disease Control Program in the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.

Links discussed during the show:

• www.VaccinateLACounty.com
• LA Public Health’s Vaccine Service Locator
• LA Public Health Vaccine Call Center: (833) 540-0473
• LA Public Health’s how to get vaccinated page
• Home visiting programs: https://edirectory.homevisitingla.org/
• Homebound vaccination program online request form
• In-home vaccination web page in English and Spanish

Coping with stress during the COVID-19 pandemic? The Department of Mental Health has online resources to help.

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