The move could open the way for the very youngest in the country to start receiving shots as early as March.
Pfizer on Tuesday asked the U.S. to authorize extra-low doses of its COVID-19 vaccine for children under 5, potentially opening the way for the country’s very youngest to start receiving shots as early as March.had urged Pfizer and its partner BioNTechThe nation’s 19 million children under 5 are the only group not yet eligible for vaccination against the coronavirus.
The agency’s decision could come within weeks, but that isn’t the only hurdle. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also has to sign off. While young children are far less likely than adults to get severely ill from the coronavirus, it can happen, and pediatric COVID-19 infections are higher than at any other point in the pandemic.
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