CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky is expected to sign off on the recommendation later Thursday,.
The CDC's independent experts endorsed Moderna's vaccine for kids ages 6 to 17 after examining the shots' safety and effectiveness during a public meeting.
Moderna's shots for older kids won't have an immediate impact on the U.S. vaccination campaign, other than providing parents with another option to choose from. Previously, only Pfizer's vaccine was authorized for kindergartners through high schoolers, though uptake has been lackluster. Two-thirds of kids ages 5 to 11 and 30% of adolescents ages 12 to 17 haven't been vaccinated against Covid yet.
Moderna originally asked the Food and Drug Administration to authorize its vaccine for adolescents ages 12 to 17 more than a year ago, but the regulator held off after other countries raised concern the company's shots might be associated with a higher risk of heart inflammation, or myocarditis, than Pfizer's vaccine.
The available U.S. data on myocarditis among kids ages 6 to 17 is based on side effects reported from Pfizer's vaccine because Moderna's shots haven't been authorized for this age group yet. Pfizer and Moderna's shots use similar messenger RNA technology. People who have develop myocarditis after vaccination are generally hospitalized for a few days as a precaution before being sent home. The CDC has found that the risk of. Myocarditis in children is typically caused by viral infections.
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