Pfizer and its partner BioNTech have announced that their mRNA vaccine for COVID-19 is safe and appears to generate a protective immune response in children as young as 5.
that their mRNA vaccine for COVID-19 is safe and appears to generate a protective immune response in children as young as 5.
On the advice of its vaccine advisory committee, the FDA asked vaccine makers to include more children in these studies earlier this year. “We don’t know whether there were cases of COVID-19 among children that were enrolled in the study and how those compared in those who received placebo versus those that received vaccine,” he said.
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