SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – COVID-19 vaccines are now available for kids under five, but some parents still have questions.
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If families are concerned about safety, UCSF Professor of Epidemiology and Pediatrics Dr. George Rutherford has an answer.
"The doses and the drugs have been carefully reviewed by the FDA and now by the CDC," Rutherford said. "We've given I don't know how many hundreds of millions of doses of these vaccines worldwide and in the United States. I think we have a pretty good feel for what the safety profile is."
On the flipside, he told KCBS Radio's "As Prescribed" on Thursday that COVID-19 itself is not an insubstantial disease in children.
In 2020, it was among the top 10 causes of death for kids.
"The other thing that we're starting to appreciate more is that children can get the syndrome of long COVID," he said.
So his advice is to go ahead and get your kids vaccinated.
Would he pick the two-dose Moderna or three-dose Pfizer option?
"I think you use what your pediatrician has in her office," Rutherford added. "That's what makes sense to me."
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