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On May 19, 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended that children ages 5 through 11 years old should receive a booster dose 5 months after their initial Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination series. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) and the Monroe County Health Department support this recommendation. Since the pandemic began, more than 4.8 million children ages 5 through 11 have been diagnosed with COVID-19, 15,000 have been hospitalized and, tragically, ov...