Several months after older children became eligible to get vaccinated against Covid-19, the United States might be just days away from offering vaccines to those younger than 5.
The US Food and Drug Administration's independent Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee is set to meet Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss amending the emergency use authorization of Moderna's and Pfizer/BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccines to include younger ages.Children under 5 -- about 18 million people -- are the only US age group that isn't eligible to get a Covid-19 vaccine.
The FDA did not require the vaccine makers to submit vaccine efficacy data for emergency use authorization for young children, but Moderna's vaccine has been estimated to be 93.3% effective against symptomatic Covid-19 among teens ages 12 to 17 when the original coronavirus and the Alpha variant were dominant.The vaccine was estimated to be 76.8% effective against symptomatic Covid-19 for children ages 6 to 11 when the Delta variant was predominant.
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