FDA authorizes Pfizer COVID-19 booster shots for children ages 5 to 11. FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf says Omicron is making more kids sick and hospitalized. Do you think young children need a third shot?
The US Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use authorization for a booster dose of Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11 at least five months after completion of the primary vaccine series.
“While it has largely been the case that COVID-19 tends to be less severe in children than adults, the omicron wave has seen more kids getting sick with the disease and being hospitalized, and children may also experience longer term effects, even following initially mild disease,” said FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf, M.D.
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