COVID-19 vaccination for children and teens with disabilities

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (U.S.). Division of Viral Diseases.
• Description:
  Updated June 19, 2022
  
  What You Need to Know
  
  • COVID-19 vaccination for children and teens is safe and effective.
  
  • Everyone 6 months and older, including those with disabilities and underlying medical conditions, should get vaccinated against COVID-19.
  
  • Everyone 5 years and older should get a booster, if eligible.
  
  • Use CDC’s COVID-19 booster tool to learn if and when your child or teen can get boosters to stay up to date with their COVID-19 vaccines.
  
  Children and youth with special healthcare needs require more care for their physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional differences than their typically developing peers. A special healthcare need can include physical, intellectual, and developmental disabilities, as well as long-standing medical conditions, such as asthma, diabetes, a blood disorder, or muscular dystrophy.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Child Coronavirus Infections COVID-19 COVID-19 Vaccines Disabled Children Disabled Persons Vaccination
• Document Type:
  Webpage
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:c37ec6ca9a371d69bcbfb14c60d69a762fca214868551f160e2d12d6886207e0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/118419/cdc_118419_DS1.pdf
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