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CDC panel backs Moderna vaccine for children aged 6 to 17, and study finds vaccines saved about 20 million lives in their first year

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A panel of advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted unanimously Thursday to recommend Moderna’s COVID vaccine for children and adolescents aged 6 to 17. The move is expected to lead CDC head Dr. Rochelle Walensky to sign off on the vaccine for that age group, offering a second option along with…

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FDA clears path for CDC to authorize mRNA vaccines in youngest children, but Florida officials say they do not recommend them

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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…

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