Why children and teens should get vaccinated against COVID-19

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Why children and teens should get vaccinated against COVID-19

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July 20, 2022
By National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (U.S.). Division of Viral Diseases.

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National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (U.S.). Division of Viral Diseases.
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Updated July 21, 2022

What You Need to Know

• COVID-19 can make children and teens of any age very sick and can sometimes require treatment in a hospital. Some children and teens have even died from COVID-19.

• The benefit of COVID-19 vaccines, like other vaccines, is that those vaccinated get protection without risking the potentially serious consequences of getting sick with COVID-19.

• Help protect children from severe disease, hospitalization, or death by getting them vaccinated against COVID-19.
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Adolescent Child Coronavirus Infections/prevention & Control COVID-19 Vaccines Vaccination
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