O le falemaʻi muamua a tamaiti i la latou taamilosaga - lea e aofia ai aʻoga, falesa, ma fale talimalo i Amerika atoa - Texas Children's galulue faʻatasi ma le White House e fesoasoani e aʻoaʻo le nuʻu i le saogalemu ma le aoga o le tui, faatoa faʻamaonia e le CDC mo lenei tamaititi. vaitausaga.

O le US Congressman Al Green ma le US Congresswomen Lizzie Fletcher ma Sheila Jackson Lee na auai atu ia Dr. Biden ma Murthy i Texas Tamaiti e faʻamamafa le latou lagolago mo le tui COVID-19 mo tamaiti.

O nisi o aiga gasegase na asiasi atu i Texas Children's tuition clinic i le Aso Sa na faateia i le asiasiga a le Tamaitai Sili ma fiafia e fegalegaleai ma ia faatasi ai ma taifau togafitiga a le falemai, Pinto ma Elsa, ma Marvel characters, Superman ma Wonder Woman. O Texas Children's na tu'uina atu fua tiketi Houston Rockets i aiga o lo'o i ai taimi faatulagaina o tui puipui i le aoauli o le Aso Sa.

I le taimi o lana asiasiga i le falemaʻi tele a tamaiti a le atunuʻu, na tusia ai e Dr. Biden ma tamaiti maʻi maʻi lo latou faʻaosofia e ave le tui COVID-19 i luga o pepa faʻasalalau, lea na faʻaalia mulimuli ane e tamaiti i luma o se palolo felanulanuaʻi i se fonotaga a le au tusitala i le Pavilion. mo Tamaitai. Na faaaoga e tamaiti le avanoa e fesili ai ia Dr. Biden pe aisea na ia manao ai e fai se tui, ma na ia tali mai na ia faia mo ana "uo, tamaiti aoga ma le vasega faamalositino." E faʻapea foʻi, na faʻaalia e tagata mamaʻi na fai latou tui "e toe fai taʻaloga, ia saogalemu o latou aiga, ma fiafia i pati aso fanau a uo."

Jim Versalovic, MD, Ph.D., taʻitaʻi-taʻitaʻi ole Texas Children's COVID-19 Command ma Pathologist-in-Chief, na faʻafeiloaʻi Dr. Biden ma Dr. Murthy i la latou taamilosaga i le falemaʻi tui tui. O Sarah Brown, o se tagata gasegase e 12-tausaga le matua na maua talu ai nei le tui COVID-19 i lona aso fanau, sa faʻatasi foi ma le Tamaitai Sili i lana malaga taamilo.

Julie Boom, MD ma Jermaine Monroe - ta'ita'ifono fa'atasi o Texas Tamaiti COVID-19 Task Force - ma Peter Hotez, MD, Ph.D. ma Maria Elena Bottazzi, Ph.D. - faʻatonu-faʻatonu o le Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children's and Baylor College of Medicine - sa i ai foʻi e faʻafeiloaʻi malo faʻapitoa i le falemaʻi i le Aso Sa.

E oo mai i le taimi nei, ua faia e Texas Children's le tui COVID-19 i le silia ma le 17,000 tamaiti e 12-15 tausaga. O loʻo fuafua le falemaʻi e tuʻiina le silia ma le 38,000 tamaiti e faasaga i le COVID-19 i le Aso Faʻafetai i le faaiuga o le vaiaso - lea e fai ma sui o le sili atu ma le 5 pasene o tamaiti sili atu i Houston e 5-11 tausaga le matutua - ma ua tatalaina le 22,000 faʻaopoopo muamua-dose tofiga e tui saogalemu ai toetoe 10. pasene o tamaiti e ta'i 5-11 tausaga le matutua a le eria i le Aso o le Tausaga Fou.

E le gata i le faia o le tui COVID-19 i lona Texas Medical Center, The Woodlands, ma West hospital campuses, Texas Children's o loʻo faʻaauau pea lana matafaioi faʻamalosi i le aumaia o le tui i le afioaga o Houston i falemaʻi faʻapitoa i le itulagi atoa. O ma'i ma tagata tausi ma'i o lo'o taumafai e tui a latou fanau e mafai ona fa'atulaga se tui puipuia ole Pfizer COVID-19 e ala ile fa'atonu ole COVID-19 a le falema'i. E maua fua valet po'o le fa'amaonia o pakaga mo aiga o lo'o asiasi atu i nofoaga e tolu a le falema'i a Tamaiti Texas mo lenei tui.

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Biden and the pediatric patients wrote their motivations to receive the COVID-19 vaccine on foam posters, which the children later displayed in front of a colorful balloon wall at a press conference in the Pavilion for Women.
In addition to administering the COVID-19 vaccine at its Texas Medical Center, The Woodlands, and West hospital campuses, Texas Children’s continues its proactive role of bringing the vaccine to the Houston community at special clinics throughout the region.
The hospital plans to vaccinate over 38,000 children against COVID-19 by Thanksgiving weekend — which represents more than 5 percent of the greater Houston area children aged 5-11 years old — and it has opened 22,000 additional first-dose appointments to safely vaccinate nearly 10 percent of the area’s 5-11-year-old children by New Year’s Day.