Meet the youngest participants in Covid-19 vaccine trials: Teens and tweens.
Reporting by @echuckles.
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Reporting by @echuckles.
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@echuckles Abhinav, an Ohio seventh grader, received his first injection of a Covid-19 vaccine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center last Thursday, making him among the youngest participants in the world to take part in a Covid-19 vaccine trial. (2/6) 
@echuckles “I’m happy that he’s doing his bit for science,” Sharat says of his son. “With the Pfizer study, no major side effects have been reported so far, so that made me comfortable with enrolling Abhinav as well.” (3/6)
@echuckles Katelyn Evans, a 16-year-old from Ohio, did not have any side effects from the shot she received.
“It’s really not scary. There’s nothing dangerous or intimidating about it,” she says, adding that she hopes others her age join the study. (4/6)
“It’s really not scary. There’s nothing dangerous or intimidating about it,” she says, adding that she hopes others her age join the study. (4/6)
@echuckles Katelyn’s mother, Laurie Evans, an elementary school teacher, said most friends and family members were supportive of Katelyn’s decision to join.
“She obviously had no fear of this,” Evans says. “I guess I’m more afraid of Covid than I am of the vaccine.” (5/6)
“She obviously had no fear of this,” Evans says. “I guess I’m more afraid of Covid than I am of the vaccine.” (5/6)
@echuckles In 2009, Heather Hannon, 48, signed two of her children up for a late-stage vaccine trial for H1N1, or swine flu. She used the opportunity as a teaching moment.
“It was excitement, it was pride, it was an understanding that life is about more than just you,” she says. (6/6)
“It was excitement, it was pride, it was an understanding that life is about more than just you,” she says. (6/6)
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