An FDA advisory committee will convene next week to review Moderna's Covid vaccine for children ages 6 months to 17 years.
“Available data support the effectiveness of the Moderna Covid-19 Vaccine in preventing symptomatic Covid-19 in pediatric age groups from 6 months through 17 years of age,” the FDA staff said.
The FDA staff also said the vaccine generally had a similar side effect profile in children as seen in adults, although younger children had fevers more frequently. Both of the messenger RNA-based Covid-19 vaccines made by Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech have been linked to rare instances of a type ofSome countries in Europe have limited the use of Moderna’s shots for younger age groups after some studies showed that it was tied to a higher risk of the heart inflammation.
The FDA said myocarditis is a known risk associated with the vaccine, but that the drugmaker’s pediatric trials were not large enough to quantify the frequency of the rare heart inflammation in pediatric age groups.is already authorized in the U.S. for people aged 5 and older. The U.S.
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