The FDA's advisory committee on vaccines unanimously recommended Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for kids between the ages of 6 and 17 on Tuesday.
"I'd like to give parents as many choices as possible, and let them make the decisions about this for their children," Dr. Arthur Reingold, a committee member and the head of epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley, said at the meeting on Tuesday.
A health worker administers a dose of a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic at the Norristown Public Health Center in Norristown, Pa., Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. Moderna's vaccine has been held up over concerns that it could cause higher rates of myocarditis, or heart inflammation, than Pfizer's vaccine among young males.
Tom Shimabukuro, a member of the CDC's COVID-19 Vaccine Coordination Unit, told the advisory panel on Tuesday that "some evidence suggests that myocarditis and pericarditis risk may be higher after Moderna than after Pfizer-BioNTech," but "findings are not consistent in all U.S. monitoring systems."
The same panel will meet Wednesday to review Moderna's vaccine for children between the ages of 6 months and 6 years old.
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