With 3 children in Pfizer COVID vaccine trial, mom anxious for results

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Just this week the archetypal results from the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine proceedings amusement the vaccine is harmless and effectual successful children 5 to 11 years old. Still, children each implicit the satellite are being monitored to spot if those results clasp true.

The Hendricks family, with 5 kids ranging from 15 months to 13 years old, decided to juggle dance, baseball, swimming, school, homework and having their 3 youngest children enactment successful the vaccine trial.

Cicely and Scotty Hendricks are Jacksonville natives but had conscionable moved to Memphis erstwhile the woman saw an nonfiction astir the trial.

“I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, this would beryllium great,’” Cicely said.

She made a telephone to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

“We virtually were the past 3 successful the state to participate the trial,” she said.

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Cicely has worked successful biotech pharmaceutical income for 20 years and understands drugs don’t get to the nationalist without objective trials. She wanted her household to beryllium a portion of protecting others from this deadly virus.

“It’s ace important to beryllium connected this broadside of past and due to the fact that we wanted to fto everybody cognize that this vaccine is safe,” Hendricks said. Her oldest lad Tripp is 13 and he’s already vaccinated. As for 9-year-old Stone and 8-year-old Sevyn, they had to hold to enactment and they tin propulsion retired astatine immoderate time. “Once I explained to them the value of you cognize what this vaccine means to the satellite and however you arsenic a radical should beryllium looking to support others they were each in,” Cicely said.

Slad, her 15-month-old, enactment up the biggest fuss.

“Hers was mostly due to the fact that determination was humor drawn there’s a batch of different things that you cognize happened anterior to getting the injection and she was similar OK listen, but I mean she was great. The nurses astatine Saint Jude infirmary were amazing,” Cicely said.

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It’s a double-blind placebo-controlled study. The researcher nor the families cognize if the kids adjacent got the vaccine but erstwhile the vaccine is approved, Hendricks said they’ll beryllium archetypal successful enactment to get it.

“It’s conscionable precise important erstwhile you cognize we get support for this vaccine. Trust your healthcare provider, speech to them, inquire questions. Do your ain owed diligence, you cognize radical similar to accidental I’m doing research. The probe has been done, the probe has been proven, it’s been astir 20 years of probe for this peculiar molecule that is going into this vaccine. So conscionable speech to your healthcare supplier but what we indispensable bash if we privation to get connected the different broadside of this pandemic and the lone mode to bash that is for radical to beryllium vaccinated,” Cicely said.

Taking portion successful a objective proceedings is simply a commitment. The Hendrick household indispensable show the kids for a year, grounds immoderate broadside effects and they indispensable cheque successful with researchers arsenic well. Cicely knows however important it is to person a divers colonisation successful objective trials truthful that the results correspond each people.

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“We cognize the past of African-Americans and objective trials and immoderate of the things that you cognize we’ve had to woody with. Just not trusting being connected that broadside of what gets drugs to market. So, what I wanted to bash is marque definite that radical understood that if we’re not represented successful the objective trials we won’t beryllium determination and volition not beryllium capable to truly amusement however it works successful our bodies and so, for maine having, that practice of African-American children successful this proceedings was highly important,” Cicely said.

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