Pediatric Associates of Malden News :: COVID-19

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given approval, by emergency use authorization (EUA), on the COVID vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna in children 6 months to 5 years of age.

We have decided to shorten our office hours for the summer by one hour. 

At the beginning of this month, FDA and CDC have authorized the Pfizer COVID vaccine for children 5-11 years of age.

There are now 3 vaccines authorized by the FDA for emergency use in the fight against this viral infection. 

We have seen an increased number of patients coming in for testing of COVID19 after the holidays of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year.

In the past few weeks we have started seeing more patients coming in with respiratory symptoms such as cough and runny nose, with or without fever.

The best scenario that we can hope for is that everyone follows the guidelines of wearing mask at all times in public, keeping physically distant, and washing/disinfecting hands often.

In another few weeks, the school is going to start.

Over the past month, the state of Massachusetts has seen a reduced number of people testing positive for COVID-19 and has started to allow reopening of businesses.

As this Coronavirus epidemic sweeps through Massachusetts, we have seen a decrease in the number of sick visits and well visits in the past 3 weeks.