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Kid vaccines: McHenry County ranks 7th among Illinois counties for 5- to 11-year-old COVID-19 shots

Just below the statewide average of 21.17% of kids in the age range having received at least one dose

By Sam Lounsberry and Cassie Buchman
Brian Gomez, of Carpentersville, holds his daughter Eden, 5, as she gets her first dose of the Pfizer vaccine from nurse Maggie Juarez on Friday, Dec. 3, 2021, at Advocate Children's Medical Group in Crystal Lake. Children ages 5 to 11 are now eligible for COVID-19 vaccines.

Brian Gomez, of Carpentersville, holds his daughter Eden, 5, as she gets her first dose of the Pfizer vaccine from nurse Maggie Juarez on Friday, Dec. 3, 2021, at Advocate Children's Medical Group in Crystal Lake. Children ages 5 to 11 are now eligible for COVID-19 vaccines. (Matthew Apgar - mapgar@shawmedia.com)

Five-year-old Eden Gomez was a bit nervous Friday afternoon as she awaited her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccination for children.

She worried the shot was going to hurt but ended up barely noticing it.