Here’s what parents need to know about whether children 5 to 11 need a third dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
was approved for children ages 5 to 11, and for kids in that age group, two shots are all that is recommended right now. should get a booster dose of the Pfizer vaccine if it has been five months since their second shot.So could boosters be coming for younger kids, too? Especially those who were vaccinated early on?“It is very likely that kids 5-11 will need a booster,” said Dr. Paul Spearman, director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center .
Dr. Dane Snyder, section chief of primary care pediatrics at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, hedged a bit more, saying it’s probably too soon to know whether younger children will require COVID-19 boosters — or when. “While the primary vaccines have been effective in this group, the effectiveness may be lower than what we have seen in older children and adolescents who received a larger dose,” Snyder said. “That may indicate that a booster will be beneficial, but more information is still needed to make a recommendation one way or another.
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