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Wrap-up of news stories taken from the day's local headlines.

COVID-19 Vaccine and Children: Their body, their choice?

BALTIMORE, MD (WEAA) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory committee is scheduled to vote Wednesday on the use of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for children. 

 

The Food and Drug Administration recently cleared the expanded use of Pfizer's shots, stating the shots worked as well in those 12 to 15 years old as those 16 and older.

 

If the CDC approves, states will begin shipping doses of the vaccine to pediatricians and even schools. 

 

Do your children have the right to decide what happens to their bodies?

 

Click below to hear the discussion with Dr. Kaye

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Today with Dr. Kaye: 5-11-21- Hour 2

  ALSO READ: Today with Dr. Kaye: Mayor Scott, Gov. Hogan agree to discuss Baltimore crime

Karsonya (Kaye) Wise Whitehead is an associate professor of Communication and African and African American Studies at Loyola University Maryland and the award-winning author of Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis; a featured Public Commentator for WYPR and Op-Ed columnist for the Baltimore Sun; a K-12 master teacher in African American History; an award-winning curriculum writer and lesson plan developer; an award-winning former Baltimore City middle school teacher; and, a three-time New York Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker.