“Parents and their children can talk to their family doctor about it and get their shot from a provider they trust the most.
As for side effects, the same holds true. A sore arm, fever, muscle aches and chills have been reported by adults who have had the vaccine, as well as by the adolescents in Pfizer’s trial studies.
Dr. Megan Ranney, an emergency room physician and professor at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, told The New York Times she had “zero safety concerns” about the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, noting that hundreds of millions of people worldwide had received it.