An expert panel backed a second COVID-19 vaccine option for kids ages 6 to 17 Thursday.
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The panel’s recommendations usually are adopted by the CDC, and become the government’s guidance for U.S. doctors and their patients. The FDA also authorized a third dose for kids with significantly weakened immune systems, to be given about a month after the second dose of the primary series. The CDC is expected to recommend the same thing.How much demand there will be for the shots isn’t clear. Teens became eligible a year ago for Pfizer’s vaccine, which uses the same technology, and only 60% have gotten two doses. Shots for younger kids started in November; about 29% have been fully vaccinated, according to the CDC.
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