FDA says some young kids can't get an updated COVID booster until next year

The FDA says it is waiting for data to be submitted next year to clear shots for some of the youngest Pfizer vaccine recipients.

, following a decision to expand emergency use authorization for the shots from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech to most children as young as 6 months old.on Thursday, clearing all recipients of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine to get a booster dose from the company's newest"bivalent" vaccines — which are tailored to recent Omicron variants — at least two months after their last"monovalent" shot.

Now the FDA says only kids who have yet to complete their third dose can swap out the last shot for an updated vaccine. Early adopters who already completed their third shot some several months ago must wait until the FDA receives more data next year. "At this time, we do not have clinical data in this age group for a fourth dose of the original vaccine following the third primary series dose, and thus we cannot yet extrapolate," Pfizer spokesperson Julia Michelle Cohen said in an email.

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