Ask the Pediatrician: Do Children Who Have Had COVID Still Need the Vaccine?
Eligible children and teens should get a COVID-19 vaccine or booster, even if they have had COVID-19. They should get vaccinated as soon as they are recovered from their illness and their isolation period has ended.
If your child has had COVID-19, they may be protected for some time from another infection. But right now, we do not have a test to reliably check how much or how long a person is protected after they get better. We know that people who have recovered from a COVID-19 infection can still get infected again with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Read the rest in an MSN article by the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Dr. James D. Campbell.
Depicted: Seven-year-old Ari Alleyne receives the children’s dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from RN Priya Meyer, Nursing Professional Development Manager at Children's Hospital Los Angeles on Nov. 3, 2021.
