NEW: Pfizer asks FDA to authorize COVID booster for children 5 to 11
A child receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at an elementary school vaccination site for children ages 5 to 11 in Miami, Florida on Nov. 22, 2021.
Photo: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Imagesfor children ages 5 through 11.If approved, it would be the first booster accessible to children of this age group, who have been hit hard in recent months. Infections rose most sharply among children and adolescents during the Omicron surge,
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