MASON CITY –Vaccinating your kids against vaccine-preventable diseases is one the best ways to protect the health of your child, as well as their classmates, their teachers, and their community. CG Public Health is holding vaccine clinics offering COVID-19 and back-to-school vaccines in July and August at schools near you. The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and adolescent vaccines (Tdap, HPV & Meningococcal) will be offered. Students 12 years of age and older, parents, staff, and other individuals are welcome to receive these vaccines. You do not need to have a child in school to take advantage of these clinics. Appointments are encouraged, to schedule call 641-421-9300.
“COVID-19 disrupted our lives, but vaccines are here and it’s time to take our lives back,” says Karen Crimmings, disease prevention manager at CG Public Health. “We must take the opportunity this summer and get our kids back on track and get them vaccinated before they return to school next year.”
Clinic locations and dates:
Lincoln Intermediate
1625 S Pennsylvania Ave, Mason City, IA 50401
July 14th, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm & August 4th, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Vocational Tech Building
210 2nd St S, Rockwell, IA 50469
July 20th, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm & August 10th, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Clear Creek Elementary
901 14th St, Clear Lake, IA 50428.
July 21st, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm & August 11th, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
As a reminder:
Students entering 7th grade are required to show proof of receiving a Tdap and Meningococcal vaccine at the time of school registration.
Students entering 12th grade are required to show proof of receiving the Meningococcal vaccine at the time of school registration.
Persons fully vaccinated against COVID-19 no longer need to quarantine even if they are exposed to COVID-19. To be considered fully vaccinated it must be two full weeks past your second dose of either the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine or two full weeks after your single dose of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.
It is completely selfish of people not to get vaccinated. It protects other people. All the scary stories are just bullcrap. Do your job, get protected or pay the price.
Parents should NOT vaccinate children for a covid virus of any kind.
yeah lets thin the herd we can always make more woo hoo!
Even when fully vaxed you can get the delta virus. But the symptoms are next to nothing compared to catching it without vaccination. And if it keeps mutating it does appeared this vaccine will protect us. The vaccine DOES work. Knowing this now is a wonderful relief compared to the skepticism early on with this whole pandemic mess. It can be rightly assessed that the rest of the world is in a whole lot of trouble without the vax. It will continued to mutate. And the more severe it gets the more deaths it will claim. It’s taking away your ability to breathe. The American Government came through for its people in its hour of need! Anybody that cannot see where this is heading is an idiot. The mutations keep growing in intensity.
Why does anyone need to be vaccinated for something that has a 0.26% fatality rate?
demoratic ploy for votes!
If you are a youngster that’s one thing, but if you are elderly the percentage is very great that you will not make it. Unless there is a medical reason why the elderly should not get it, most should get it. But for me the jury is still out on the elderly. The youngsters, NO WAY.
Even the most at risk individuals still only have about a 5% fatality rate from covid. I’d be much more worried about morbid obesity than I would be about covid.
Hope you are one of the 5%!