Cooper Pediatric Care Moorestown Has COVID Vaccine For Kids 5-11

MOORESTOWN, NJ — Families with children ages 5 to 11 years old can now schedule to get their child vaccinated against COVID-19 at Cooper Primary and Specialty Care in Moorestown, the health system announced.

The announcement was made after the recommendation from the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday that children five years of age and older receive an age-appropriate dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.

“The CDC and the New Jersey Department of Health are recommending the Pfizer vaccine for younger children, which clinical trials have shown to be effective to prevent severe infection, and we are happy to be able to provide the vaccine to protect families and, hopefully, bring this pandemic to an end,” Cooper co-CEO Anthony J. Mazzarelli said.

Beginning Thursday, Pfizer’s pediatric COVID-19 vaccine was available at Cooper Primary and Specialty Care, 110 Marter Avenue in Moorestown. Cooper is also offering the children’s vaccine at the Camden County Health Hub in Gloucester Township, The Kroc Center in Camden, and their other primary care offices, including:

• Cooper Pediatric Care at Sewell
• Cooper Pediatrics at Voorhees
• Cooper Pediatric Care at Burlington

Appointments can be made by calling the location or by using MyCooper. Walk-in patients will not be vaccinated at primary care offices, and limited walk-in vaccinations will be administered at The Kroc Center, 1865 Harrison Avenue in Camden, from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursdays. Limited walk-ins are also available at the Camden County Health Hub at Camden County College, 200 College Drive in the Blackwood section of Gloucester Township.

On Tuesday, Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, director of the CDC, endorsed the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices' recommendation that children 5 to 11 years old be vaccinated against COVID-19 with the Pfizer-BioNTech pediatric vaccine.

That now expands vaccine recommendations to about 28 million children in the United States in this age group and allows providers to begin vaccinating them as soon as possible.

For more information, including scheduling links and a link to the CDC recommendation, visit CooperHealth.org/covid19vaccine.