Eligible adults get COVID-19 vaccine boosters at Nassau Community College
Hundreds of eligible adults
came to Nassau Community College on Saturday to get their COVID-19 booster
shots.
For Barbara McFadden, of West
Hempstead, she was enthusiastic about rolling up her sleeve for a third time.
"Get out there, roll up
your sleeve, give your arm and get that vaccine," she said.
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The Nassau County Health
Department brought the boosters to the campus. For more than four hours,
volunteers vaccinated people with either the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson
doses. It was open to those who made appointments and those who just showed up.
The booster event comes a day
after the FDA approved emergency use authorization for Pfizer's COVID-19
vaccine for children ages 5 to 11. Kids will be given a third of the dose
that's given to teenagers and adults.
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention is expected to sign off on Pfizer's COVID vaccine for
kids 5 to 11 as early as next week.
"We do believe that
boosters really will limit breakthrough, and the vaccinating of children, which
we expect will start in the next week or so,” says Lawrence Eisenstein, the
county’s health commissioner.
Officials from the Nassau
County Health Department say the volunteers are a tremendous help. Elliot
Siegel, a retired oral surgeon from Massapequa Park, has volunteered his time
for the last 15 months to vaccinate people against COVID-19.
"We're saving lives, and
we're going to defeat this coronavirus, and this is the best way to do
it," he says.