The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have both authorized Pfizer PFE, + 2.99% and Moderna’s MRNA, + 0.71% COVID-19 vaccines for kids under 5, and the Biden administration said that 10 million initial COVID vaccination doses could start being administered to young children beginning Tuesday, June 21. The…
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The Food and Drug Administration took the advice of a panel of advisers and authorized the COVID-19 vaccines developed by BioNTech and Pfizer and by Moderna for children as young as 6 months on Friday, adding the final group to the nation’s vaccine program. The regulator said Moderna’s MRNA The two-dose vaccine is now authorized…
A day after a panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration endorsed a second brand of COVID-19 vaccine for school-age children and teens, the same panel will reconvene to discuss vaccines for children under the age of five, the final group to be added to the US program. The group voted unanimously that…
An independent panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration will meet later Tuesday to discuss the use of the Moderna vaccine in children aged 6 to 17. If the panel offers a favorable opinion, the Moderna MRNA, + 2.18% The vaccine could become a second choice for children in that age group, along…
