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WTVD<\/a> news reports health officials are working to improve the vaccination rate among youth in North Carolina. According to the latest data from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, four percent of doses being doled out are going to kids ages 12-17 and seven percent of the doses for ages 18-24.<\/p>\n

David Weber<\/a>, MD, MPH, said the vaccine is very effective, even against the new variants including the Delta variant.<\/a><\/p>\n

“Both the Moderna and Pzifer vaccines showed excellent data for the 12 and above people, actually better data than they did for older people. In their trials, they were 100 percent effective,” Weber explained in the report.<\/p>\n

Watch or read the WTVD report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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