Milpitas will open a vaccination site for children ages five to 11 on Nov. 7, according to a post on the city’s Facebook page posted Wednesday.
The shots will be available from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Milpitas Community Center, located on East Calaveras Boulevard near city hall. No appointment is needed and the vaccine is free. The site will also offer Pfizer boosters to those 18 years old and up who have waited six months since their second Pfizer dose. No proof of immigration status is needed to get a dose.
A city spokesperson did not immediately respond to questions about Milpitas’s vaccine rollout.
Milpitas is the first in Santa Clara County to advertise a vaccine site for kids. On Tuesday, advisers from the Food and Drug Administration recommended that children receive a one-third dose of the Pfizer vaccine. Representatives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are meeting next week and are expected to also approve the dose.
Santa Clara County expects to get 55,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine for children by either Nov. 3 or Nov. 4, COVID-19 Vaccine Officer Marty Fenstersheib announced during a press conference on Wednesday. Eleven thousand of those doses will go to retail pharmacies while the other 44,000 doses are slated for school vaccination sites. Those school locations will be announced next week, said Fenstersheib. About 167,000 children ages five to 11 are eligible for the vaccine in the county.
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