FDA advisers are set to vote Wednesday on whether the agency should clear use of Covid shots from Pfizer and Moderna in children as young as 6 months
Health experts advising U.S. health regulators are scheduled to vote Wednesday on whether Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE and from Moderna Inc.
should be cleared for useA positive recommendation would likely lead soon to expanding the U.S. Covid-19 vaccination campaign to the 19.6 million children ranging in age from 6 months to under 5 years old, one of the last groups of people in the U.S. waiting for shots.
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