However, the Pfizer shots still offered protection against serious illness from COVID, the researchers found.
Published 55 mins agoTwo doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine offer almost no protection against coronavirus infection in kids ages 5 to 11, according to new dataResearchers from the New York State Department of Health found that the vaccine’s effectiveness
dropped to 12% from 68% in the age group in December and January when theThe Pfizer shots still offered protection against serious illness from COVID, the researchers found, with protection against hospitalization declining to 48 percent from 100 percent over the same time period.
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