"We'll start the vaccination program in the last week of July," he said at a news conference. "We'll soon procure vaccines and syringes suitable for children," Maleque said. In order to receive vaccination, children aged 5-12 will have to register using their birth certificate on the go...
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Washington —Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb predicted Sunday that the agency he helmed will authorize Pfizer'scoronavirus vaccinefor emergency use in children ages 5 to 11 by the end of October.In an interview with "Face the Nation," Gottlieb, who serv...
Parents are clamouring to enrol their kids in the first COVID-19 vaccine trials in young children. “Somebody told me they called and called and called until they were allowed to participate,” says Kawsar Talaat, an infectious-disease physician and vaccine scientist at the Johns Hopkins ...
A meeting of the FDA’s vaccine advisers, the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, was scheduled for mid-February. But before the group could meet the FDA and Pfizer announced theplan was on hold. The plan is now to wait for the third-dose results before considering ...
"We'll make it convenient and easy for parents and kids by bringing vaccines to pediatricians' offices, schools, rural health clinics, pharmacies, and children's hospitals," said Zients.
Here’s what the science reveals about the safety of the Pfizer shot for this age group, the doses involved, and the role it will play in protecting everyone from the disease.
COVID vaccines and kids: five questions as trials beginVirologyPublic healthAs the first clinical trials in young children start, here's what scientists want to know. As the first clinical trials in young children start, here's what scientists want to know. Credit: Ina Fassbender/AFP via ...
Overall, COVID-19 vaccination rates in the United States have stayed low among kids, with nearly 40% of children aged 5-11 vaccinated with one dose of a vaccine so far. Pfizer/BioNTech's vaccine will be shipped immediately after the CDC's recommendation, the companies said....
President Biden has released his rollout plan for COVID-19 vaccines in anticipation of approval to use the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5–11 as part of an emergency use authorization. "The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) will be meeting to review the data that was submitted...