Pfizer is working on a three-dose regimen of its vaccine for young children after a two-dose course produced disappointing results in clinical trials.
Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine will hopefully be approved for children under 5 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration “within the next month or so,” White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday, as the number of children hospitalized with Covid has more than doubled since December....
during a virtual town hall meeting with Blue Star Families, a nonprofit that supports military families.produced a weak immune response in trials. Revising studies to include three doses rather than two has delayed Pfizer from submitting data to the FDA and extended the timeline for authorizing the vaccine for young children, Fauci told Blue Star Families CEO Kathy Roth-Douquet.
Fauci reminded listeners that there is no hard-and-fast timeline for authorizing the vaccine, remarking that he “can’t out-guess the FDA.” A Pfizer spokesperson said that the company would not speculate on a timeline for the vaccine’s approval, but pointed out that it took just over three weeks to obtain emergency use authorization for a vaccine for kids age 5 to 11.
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