Many parents now are waiting for the time when their young children can sign up to receive a Covid-19 vaccine — but there are several steps that need to happen first.
A highly anticipated announcement Monday from the companies Pfizer and BioNTech revealed that their lower-dose Covid-19 vaccine was found to be safe and generated a"robust" antibody response in children ages 5 to 11, based on data from a Phase 2/3 trial.
Many parents now are waiting for the time when their young children can sign up to receive a Covid-19 vaccine -- but there are several steps that need to happen first.1. Pfizer needs to request authorization for this age group from the FDAPfizer and BioNTech still need to ask the US Food and Drug Administration for the emergency use authorization of their Covid-19 vaccine to include children ages 5 to 11.
"I think there is certainly a lot of hope that we will see a bit of uptake among our children 5 to 11 years of age if and when a vaccine becomes available, but I do think that, similar to what we're seeing in adolescents and adults, there will be some hesitancy that will be a major issue to potentially how impactful such a vaccine approval might be," Anderson said.This isn't expected to be the last group to go through the authorization process, either.
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