The FDA is encouraging families to get young children vaccinated ahead of the holidays.
The number of hospitalizations has increased following the Thanksgiving holiday, according toKids between six months and five years old who received the Moderna primary series can receive the updated Moderna booster as soon as two months later.
Children between six months and four years old who received two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine can get the companies' updated vaccine as a third shot. But those who received three doses of Pfizer's monovalent vaccine aren't eligible for an updated shot. The FDA said it is still evaluating data for young children in this group, and an update could come after January.
showed bivalent mRNA vaccines provided additional protection against infection compared with previous vaccination with monovalent vaccines alone.The CDC will evaluate the shots and must give approval before physicians can start administering them.Axios on facebook
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