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The Food and Drug Administration expands Pfizer's COVID-19 booster shots for children as young as 12 years old.The FDA now says people aged 12 and older can receive their Pfizer-BioNTech booster five months after their second shot.
First, we expanded the use of a single booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine to individuals as young as 12 years of age.A third dose was also authorized for certain immunocompromised children aged 5 to 11 years old. Fully vaccinated children aged 5 to 11 who are not immunocompromised do not need to be boosted at this time, the FDA said.
Peter Marks, the director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said the decision came in response to COVID variants. "Based on the FDA's assessment of currently available data, a booster dose of the currently authorized vaccines may help provide better protection against both the delta and omicron variants," Marks said in a
."In particular, the omicron variant appears to be slightly more resistant to the antibody levels produced in response to the primary series doses from the current vaccines."
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