Reports: Pfizer to seek COVID-19 vaccine EUA for kids soon

SAN DIEGO — Pfizer is adjacent to submitting information from the objective trials of its COVID-19 vaccine connected 5- to 11-year-olds to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), according to Reuters and CNBC.

In March, Pfizer began investigating 4,500 children successful a three-age radical proceedings for their COVID-19 vaccine. The groups included school-age children from 5 to 11, preschool-age children from 2 to 5, and infants from 6 months to 2 years old.

Pfizer said the vaccine for school-age kids is the aforesaid look arsenic the vaccine approved for adults, but with a smaller dose. On Friday, reports emerged that Pfizer was preparing to taxable information for 5- to 11-year-olds successful the coming weeks.

"The FDA wants to spot information connected the information and broadside effects and the immunogenicity, however beardown is the vaccine, successful the older property radical first, earlier they mostly instrumentality it down," said Dr. John Bradley, the infectious diseases aesculapian Director astatine Rady Children's Hospital successful San Diego.

The FDA besides announced Friday a caller modular for pediatric COVID-19 vaccine trials. Clinical trials indispensable see a two-month follow-up play aft giving the last dose, wherever manufacturers show the effects of the vaccines. Bradley said that is the clip framework for broadside effects to amusement up.

"If there's fever, arthritis, myocarditis, immoderate of those, mostly [it appears] wrong the archetypal 2 months," Bradley said.

Some parents question if vaccines are adjacent indispensable for children if the COVID-19 decease complaint of kids is little than 0.1%. But Bradley said infected children tin inactive dispersed the microorganism to higher-risk radical similar grandparents. He believes vaccinating the younker would get the assemblage backmost to normalcy.

"I privation kids to get backmost to conscionable being kids and playing with each other. And the cardinal to that is immunization of each children," Bradley said.

Bradley believes that the FDA volition assistance Pfizer the EUA for its vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds by adjacent month. He thinks the COVID-19 vaccine volition go a required changeable for each children similar Hepatitis and Tetanus wrong a fewer years.

Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine has already received afloat support from the FDA and CDC for everyone aged 12 and up.

This communicative was primitively published by Rina Nakano connected Scripps presumption KGTV successful San Diego.