For his 12th birthday, Gavin Roberts only had one request: get vaccinated against the coronavirus that killed his dad last year. When he reached the legal age to get the shot on Sunday, his wish was finally granted.
For his 12th birthday, Gavin Roberts only had one request: get vaccinated against the coronavirus that killed his dad last year. So when he reached the legal age to get the shot on Sunday, his wish was finally granted.that her son's decision was strongly influenced by his dad's death early in the pandemic.
"I kept asking him what he wanted for his birthday," she said."He was always saying it's the vaccine, we're going to get that." Charles"Rob" Roberts, a Glen Ridge police officer and Gavin's father, died of Covid-19 on May 11, three weeks after he collapsed in his home in late April, Alice wrote in a column published onAlice said her husband was in good health and took the virus"very seriously," but at the time of his infection, Covid-19 testing was sparse and vaccines weren't available.
Gavin is one of more than 467 million people who have been given a vaccine dose in the United States,. Around 12.7 million children under the age of 18, or around 54 percent of 12- to 17-year-olds, have received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine, according to an American Academy of Pediatrics analysis of CDC data as of Sept. 15.
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