The FDA's independent experts are meeting this week to consider emergency use authorization of the vaccine for young children.
The independent experts will also examine a request from Moderna to use its vaccine in children younger than 6, which FDA scientists alsoYoung children remain the only people in the U.S. ineligible to receive a coronavirus vaccine.Preliminary data shows the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is 75.6% percent effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 for babies and toddlers in 6-23 months age group, 82.4% effective in 2- to 4-year-old children and 80.
4% effective in a combined analysis of both groups, according to the briefing document.Available data support the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine 3-dose primary series ... in preventing COVID-19 in the age group of 6 months through 4 years," the FDA scientists say in their analysis, noting that it's too soon to reach "definitive conclusions.
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