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CNN reports this morning on some of the youngest people yet in the US to be vaccinated as the FDA approved emergency use of the shots on adolescents – but there’s a catch. They report:
Jacob Laney, 14, was in line at a Decatur, Georgia, vaccine site early Tuesday in hopes of getting the vaccine. “My friend got Covid and it looked really bad, and I just did not want to get it,” he told CNN. Once he gets both doses of Pfizer’s two-dose vaccine, “I think I’ll be less scared of getting it and less scared of having issues with Covid-19,” he said.
Cameron Carrion, a 14-year-old whose mother watched CNN’s interview with Jacob and then drove to the same vaccine site, said he felt good about getting the shot.
Technical problems derailed Japan’s coronavirus vaccination booking system, compounding frustration in the country over the government’s handling of new outbreaks of infections and an inoculation drive that critics say has been woefully slow.
The online system to book a vaccine crashed in many places because of a global problem with US cloud computing vendor Salesforce, public broadcaster NHK reported.
Read the original article at The Guardian