Pfizer advances clinical trials for 5- to 11-year-olds at lower doses

Pfizer is advancing Phase 2/3 clinical trials for young kids at lower doses than vaccines for adults.

Anthony Behar/Sipa USA via AP, FILEfor adults, the pharmaceutical company announced Tuesday.

The study will include up to 4,500 participants from the United States, Finland, Poland and Spain, according to Pfizer.A child sits on his mother's lap as he receives his first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, at a vaccination site set up in the American Museum of Natural History in New York, N.Y., May 18, 2021.

"We take a deliberate and careful approach to help us understand the safety and how well the vaccine can be tolerated in younger children," Gruber said."Children younger than 12 make up a significant portion of the total global population and can develop COVID-19 disease, and also can spread the virus to others," Gruber added."If successful, we believe vaccinating children will help further protect our communities and contribute to the evolving herd immunity.

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