Vaccine advisers to the CDC vote unanimously to recommend giving Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine to children ages 5 to 11
From CNN’s Maggie Fox
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is meeting now to discuss the US Food and Drug Administration’sACIP will vote later Tuesday on whether to recommend use of the vaccine in children this age. It will then be up to Walensky to decide whether to accept ACIP’s decision. After Walensky decides, vaccination could begin immediately, and vaccines are already being deployed in preparation.
“As you review the data today, it will be key to keep in mind the specific risks to children from this virus and the pandemic, and to put that risk into context of other vaccine-preventable diseases,” she said, noting that children are routinely vaccinated against diseases such as chickenpox, which kill far fewer children and put far fewer of them into the hospital than Covid-19 does.
The CDC says 745 children under 18 have died. “The chance that a child will have severe Covid, require hospitalization or develop a long term complication like MIS-C remains low, but still the risk is too high and too devastating to our children, and far higher than for many other diseases for which we vaccinate children,” Walensky added.
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