{"id":1071619,"date":"2021-11-04T14:54:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T19:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1071619"},"modified":"2021-11-05T14:54:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T19:54:01","slug":"ut-health-east-texas-to-provide-covid-19-vaccines-for-children-ages-5-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1071619","title":{"rendered":"UT Health East Texas to provide COVID-19 vaccines for children ages 5-11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/11\/index-175x98.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"98\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1071620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/11\/index-175x98.png 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/11\/index.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>TYLER &#8212; Following the CDC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s approval of the COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, UT Health East Texas is prepared to begin administering vaccines to children starting Friday. Pediatric COVID-19 vaccines will be offered without an appointment from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday at UT Health East Texas Physicians North Campus Tyler \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Family Medicine, located on the second floor of the Riter Center on US Highway 271. The vaccine is one third the dose of what is given to those 12 and older, and it is administered as a two-dose series, three weeks apart. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Following the CDC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s approval of the COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, UT Health East Texas is prepared to begin administering vaccines to children starting Friday. Pediatric COVID-19 vaccines will be offered without an appointment from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday at UT Health East Texas Physicians North &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1071619\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UT Health East Texas to provide COVID-19 vaccines for children ages 5-11<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1071623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/11\/index-175x98.png","fifu_image_alt":"UT Health East Texas to provide COVID-19 vaccines for children ages 5-11","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 10:25:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/11\/index-175x98.png","fifu_image_alt":"UT Health East Texas to provide COVID-19 vaccines for children ages 5-11","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1071619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071621,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071619\/revisions\/1071621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1071619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1071619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1071619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}