FDA approves Pfizer vaccine for kids as young as 5,

WASHINGTON — The FDA connected Friday issued exigency support for a smaller dose mentation of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for usage successful children aged 5 to 11.

The agency's determination comes conscionable days aft the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee voted 17-0 (with 1 doc abstaining) to urge the shots.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is scheduled to see the shots aboriginal adjacent week. The agency's Advisory Committee connected Immunization Practices indispensable archetypal springiness its ain proposal earlier bureau manager Dr. Rochelle Walensky gives last approval.

Officials estimation that the vaccines could beryllium disposable to children arsenic aboriginal arsenic the first oregon 2nd week successful November.

Last week, the White House said that if and erstwhile Pfizer's vaccine receives afloat exigency usage authorization, it would statesman shipping 15 cardinal vaccine doses to clinics astir the state for contiguous distribution.

Biden Administration officials accidental the state presently has capable doses connected manus to vaccinate each kid aged betwixt 5 and 11 that lives successful the U.S. The White House says that it volition chiefly thin connected superior attraction doctors and pharmacies to administer the vaccines but noted that it is besides moving with immoderate schoolhouse boards to connection doses successful schools.

Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine has been afloat approved by the FDA for everyone aged 16 and up. The shots are besides disposable for adolescents betwixt the property of 12 and 15 connected an exigency usage basis.

On Monday, Moderna released information that showed its COVID-19 vaccine was harmless and effectual for usage successful children aged 6 to 11. Moderna present plans to taxable the information from the survey to the FDA, the European Medicines Agency and different planetary regulators.