San Francisco Announces 5-Year-Olds Will Need Vaccine To Enter Restaurants. Social Media Explodes.

Speaking at a virtual townhall, Susan Philip, the Acting Health Officer and Director of Disease Prevention and Control for the San Francisco Health Department, stated that the vaccine mandate requiring children between the ages of five and eleven barring them from restaurants unless they were vaccinated with a COVID-19 vaccine would be implemented no more than eight weeks after the Pfizer vaccine for children is fully approved. That news enraged people on social media, who castigated the city government for forcing children to get vaccinated in order to attend public events.

The moderator asked Philip, “When do you think the vaccine mandates will happen for grades K through 6, for this age range that we’re talking about, ages 5 through 11?”

“What we have heard from the governor’s office and the California Department of Public Health is that this will be in effect, as Dr. Woolridge (pediatrician Daniel Woolridge) said, once the vaccine, once the Pfizer vaccine is fully FDA approved.” Philip answered. “There is a related question which people have asked me, which is what about the local San Francisco health orders that require vaccination to go into a restaurant or to go to a Warriors game, when is that going to apply to children five to eleven?”

“We definitely want to wait and make sure children have an opportunity to get vaccinated,” she continued. “So that will happen no sooner than about eight weeks after the vaccine is available to kids, so there will be a limited time in which there will not be those requirements is our plan. But then at some point, five to 11-year-olds will also have to show proof of vaccination to access some of those same settings.”

Asked who could provide consent for children ages five through eleven, Philip answered, “For five to eleven-year-olds, it would be that child’s parents or guardian, legal guardian, who is able to provide consent for vaccination.”

Asked whether there would be a way to ascertain how small or large the dose for children could be as their weights fluctuated, Woolridge answered, “It speaks to the particular nuance in pediatrics where we weight-base many, many medications. However, for the Pfizer bio-tech vaccine, it is not weight-based like certain other medications in pediatrics. And the vaccine for those ages five to eleven was studied using a dose … that was one-third of the adult dose, and that was really done in order to prevent

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