5 questions parents have about Covid vaccines for young kids — and answers from top experts (via CNBCMakeIt)
On Tuesday, a Food and Drug Administration advisory committeefor children ages 5 to 11, setting the stage for roughly 28 million kids to become vaccine-eligible as soon as next week. The FDA will likely approve the committee's recommendation later this week, and then send its findings to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for a final decision.
, or "MIS-C." Kids can also transmit the virus to adults at risk of severe illness from Covid, like people who are elderly or immunocompromised. Some good news, then: The Covid vaccines are subject to the most intensive safety monitoring in U.S. history, Beers says. And on Tuesday, the FDA reported that it found zero deaths or "significant adverse events" in Pfizer's early Covid vaccine trials for kids.
Pfizer's vaccine has a considerably lower dosage for young children than it does for everyone else: 10 micrograms for kids ages 5 to 11, as opposed to 30 micrograms. Some parents worry about potential long-term side effects from the Covid vaccines. Beers says that vaccines don't typically create any form of long-term health problem — even long-lasting side effects dissipate after six weeks at most, she notes — and the Covid vaccines are no exception.
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