Daily News | Far fewer Philly kids may be vaccinated against COVID-19 than the city has reported
Philadelphia health officials have said for weeks that more than half of the city’s 5-to-11-year-olds have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose.in that age group.
“We believe that our network of pediatricians that regularly offer pediatric vaccines and the parents that regularly get their children vaccinated contribute to getting as many children as we’ve seen get their COVID vaccine,” said James Garrow, a health department spokesperson. But here’s where the discrepancy arises: Around 130,000 children ages 5-11 live in the city according to multiple sources, including the health department itself, which used this figure to report theSo if you do the math: based on their figures, 44,040 children are only a third of about 130,000, about 20 percentage points lower than the city is reporting.
Asked about the discrepancy on Friday, city health officials said only that the data is under review. Nor would they confirm whether the 44,040 figure is accurate, or whether they were still using the same population figure as they had in November. “Us putting out half-baked numbers that would likely change isn’t going to help any more,” Garrow said on FridayStanford said that between her organization, the city health department, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, pharmacies and pediatricians’ offices offering children vaccines, 44,000 injections among kids ages 5 to 11, “seems reasonable with everybody pitching in, but it doesn’t give you 53% of children in that age group.
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