Vaccines for kids under age 12 expected 'mid-winter,' FDA official says
Pfizer said in a statement to NBC News it anticipates results on its clinical trials in kids ages 5 to 11 sometime in September, and then could apply for emergency use authorization."Data for kids 2 and under 5 could arrive soon after that," the company said, adding that results on kids ages 6 months up to 2 years may not be released until October or November.
"I can't imagine, except maybe for the 6- to 11-year-olds, that we're going to have too much data before the late fall," Creech, also a pediatric infectious disease expert and director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, said.
"Given that children are one of the groups that is unvaccinated, we will see more cases in children," said Dr. Richard Besser, a pediatrician and former acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."We will see more hospitalizations in children, and unfortunately we will see more deaths in children."
"Quite a number of people are saying that that will influence their decision to get vaccinated," he said.
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