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When Parents Said No to Their Kids Being Vaccinated, This Teenager Created VaxTeen. It's Now More Crucial Than Ever
Like many 18-year-olds, Kelly Danielpour is preparing to start college in the fall, planning out her classes, buying dorm necessities and wondering what her roommate will be like. Unlike many 18-year-olds, she’s also spending her spare time helping teens across the country navigate vaccine-hesitant parents and get their COVID-19 vaccines.
How teens are using the internet to rebel against anti-vaxx parents and get the COVID-19 vaccine
A recent poll found that a quarter of US parents say they won't vaccinate their children.
To fight against anti-vax parents, teens are sharing vaccination resources on the internet.
Teens are posting memes on TikTok and writing threads on Reddit.
VaxTeen Aims to Help Children with Anti-Vaxx Parents to Get Consent, Receive Pfizer's COVID-19 Vaccine
VaxTeen is an online database that aims to help children and teenagers, and those with Anti-Vaccine parents (a.k.a. anti-vax) to get consent for immunization against COVID-19.
How Vaccine Self-Consent Laws Can Help Teens With Anti-Vax Parents
Addressing the parents' concerns might help, but also look into vaccine self-consent laws.
As Parents Forbid Covid Shots, Defiant Teenagers Seek Ways to Get Them - The New York Times
Most medical consent laws require parental permission for minors to get a vaccine. Now some places are easing restrictions for Covid shots while others are proposing new ones.
(Vax)Teen Dream - Late Bloomer
Meet Kelly, an avid list-maker, John Mulaney fan, and founder of VaxTeen.
TikTok of anti-vaxx father offering daughter bribe to avoid jab highlights teens’ Covid battle against parents - The Independent
‘My family is gone! By the end of this flu season most of you will be dead!’ the anguished father yells in a viral TikTok video
Teens with vaccine-hesitant parents are helping each other schedule appointments to get the COVID-19 shot - Daily Mail
Kelly Danielpour, 18, founded the website VaxTeen, to help teens understand vaccine consent laws in their states and which shots are required at which ages
Faced with anti-vaccination parents, teens are helping one another get Covid shots - NBC
The dilemma for some teenagers is "I know vaccines are lifesaving, but I don't want to become homeless" by defying their parents' wishes.
They’re Not Anti-Vaccine, but These Parents Are Hesitant About the Covid Shot - The New York Times
Many of them are vaccinated, but when it comes to their kids, the unknowns give them pause.
Adolescents Can Finally Get Vaccinated against COVID - Scientific American
Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine approval is younger teens’ shot at freedom
What People Are Most Excited About Post-Vaccine: Friends, Family, and Live Events - Teen Vogue
Eleven young people weigh in.
Should Teens Get Vaccinated Without Parental Consent? - PBS
There is growing momentum on Reddit and TikTok from teens who want to get vaccinated without their parents' consent. In this episode of Above the Noise, our host Myles Bess investigates this trend, as well as the history of vaccines and the movement against them. He also speaks with Kelly Danielpour, a high school senior who founded an organization that provides resources for teens to learn more.
Vaccine Rebels: The Teens Defying Their Parents to Get the COVID Vaccine - Teen Vogue
An 18th birthday is iconic for any teenager. They can finally vote, get piercings and tattoos without parental permission, play the lotto, book a hotel room, open a credit card, and even get married. But Heather, a 17-year-old in California, is looking forward to her birthday for a different reason: She’ll be able to get the coronavirus vaccine without needing parental consent.