Covid-19 vaccines for kids available as close as Lubbock

By Liz Adams on Wednesday, November 17, 2021
  • COVID PROTECTION FOR KIDS Nurses talk to 10-year-old Miranda Morales after she received her first dose of the Pfizer pediatric COVID-19 vaccine at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston on Nov. 3, 2021. | ANNIE MULLIGAN FOR THE TEXAS TRIBUNE
    COVID PROTECTION FOR KIDS Nurses talk to 10-year-old Miranda Morales after she received her first dose of the Pfizer pediatric COVID-19 vaccine at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston on Nov. 3, 2021. | ANNIE MULLIGAN FOR THE TEXAS TRIBUNE

    Since the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine was approved to prevent Covid-19 in children over the age of five years old in late October, some families are keen to get it—but smaller towns have waited for it to become available.

    Lockney’s Cogdell Clinic and Floydada’s Payne Pharmacy have not been able to obtain the vaccines for children at this time.

    Denise Payne said that the pharmacy was able to distribute t…