The FDA announced the Pfizer shot’s authorization for younger teens late Monday, and the CDC plans to convene a panel on Wednesday to discuss recommendations for its use
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Up to this point, Pfizer's vaccine had been authorized only for people 16 and older. The two other Covid-19 vaccines available in the U.S., from Moderna and Johnson & Johnson, are authorized only for adults 18 and up. Pfizer and other vaccine-makers are now studying the shots’ use in even younger kids, from 11-year-olds down to 6-month-old infants.
“We really do need to crush the outbreak, and you do that by essentially interrupting the chain of transmission and adolescent kids are part of the chain of transmission,” he told POLITICO last week. “I am extraordinarily sensitive about the needs of the developing world. ... But I believe that we can really, dramatically interrupt the chain of transmission in this country at the same time as looking at the needs of other countries. I don't think it's either-or.
India’s current surge in cases is “a reminder that this pandemic won’t fully be over for our country until it is over for the world,” Committee chair
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