Today marks the last major regulatory hurdle before Pfizer and BioNTech can get their Covid vaccine doses into younger kids’ arms. Catch up in our Prescription Pulse newsletter 👇
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky is expected to quickly endorse the shots’ administration; the main question is whether her agency’s external advisory panel will try to recommend limiting the vaccines to high-risk children as opposed to everyone in the 5-11 age group.
The CDC can help prepare parents for making vaccine decisions for their kids by making it clear the agency will track safety data closely and will “continually communicate with the public as it receives more data,” Sharfstein said. “What we hope is that, as we get more data, it will be reassuring and encouragement for people to move off the fence” and get their children immunized, he added.for children 5-11 years old.
“Over the next couple of days, several million doses will start arriving at local pediatricians and family doctors offices, pharmacies, children's hospitals, community health centers, rural health clinics and other locations,” White House Covid-19 Coordinator Jeff Zients told reporters. “More doses will be packed and shipped and delivered each and every day over the next week or so.”
That review may not wrap up until January, the company said, noting FDA notified Moderna of the timeline on Friday. While both Pfizer’s and Moderna’s vaccines have been linked to an elevated risk of myocarditis in adolescent and young adult males, some countries’ side effect surveillance systems — including one in the U.S. — has noted a stronger correlation between the condition and the Moderna product.
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