The COVID-19 Vaccination

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COVID-19 vaccinations by appointment are available for eligible individuals at many Baptist locations and community sites throughout West Tennessee, Eastern Arkansas, and North and Central Mississippi. Schedule your vaccination appointment at the facility nearest you.

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The COVID-19 Vaccines are Safe, Effective, and Vital to Ending the Pandemic

The FDA, on the basis of the most extensive data ever produced for a medicine or drug, gave its full approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, also now called Comirnaty (koe-mir’-na-tee), for the prevention of COVID-19 disease in individuals 16 years of age and older. And all three vaccines – Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson – are all still available to anyone over the age of 12 under the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from earlier this year. Full FDA approval of the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines are anticipated for later this year.

With the widespread emergence of the delta variant, which has led to a surge in COVID cases and deaths, getting the vaccine is as important as ever. Tens of millions of Americans, and millions more worldwide, have received the vaccine, suffering little to no side effects. Here are the facts:

The vaccines are safe. There have been no reported serious medical events directly attributed to the vaccines, , and the FDA’s full approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine underscores its safety.

The vaccines are effective. Ongoing studies have shown the vaccines to be exceptionally effective in reducing infections, transmissions, and severity of illness brought on by COVID-19, including the delta variant.

The vaccine are important to returning to normalcy. . Vaccines are the most effective and accessible tools to slowing the transmission of disease and eradicating it.