CDC advisers vote to recommend COVID vaccine booster shots for children as young as 12
by the Food and Drug Administration on Monday. Under federal supply agreements governing use of the shots, vaccinators must wait for both the FDA and CDC's sign-off before expanding booster shot eligibility.
In the past, the committee has grappled with weighing the risk of myocarditis, a rare but sometimes serious heart inflammation side effect linked to the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines in mostly younger males after the second shot, against generally lower rates of severe disease among children compared to adults.
Data presented to the committee from Israel, where third shots have been given to residents as young as 12 at least five months after their second shot"The booster safety data is very reassuring. By both of the different surveillance methods, we have given over 41,000 doses and, in our follow-up, we have only two cases of myocarditis," Israel's Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis told the committee.
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