FDA panel reviewing Pfizer vaccine for kids

On Tuesday, a cardinal FDA sheet volition conscionable and ballot connected whether to formally urge that children arsenic young arsenic 5 beryllium authorized to person Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine nether exigency usage authorization.

Should the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee springiness the motion to Pfizer's vaccine for children aged 5 to 11, it would wide the mode for afloat FDA support aboriginal this week earlier the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention see the shots aboriginal adjacent week.

If the CDC grants support adjacent week, bureau manager Dr. Rochelle Walensky would request to personally motion disconnected connected the shots earlier they go wide available.

Officials estimation that the vaccines — a smaller dose of the COVID-19 vaccine already disposable for adults — 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 exigency approval, it would instantly 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.