Coronavirus Update: U.S. opens vaccination to children as young as 6 months
The U.S. will start vaccinating children below the age of 5 starting this week, after regulatory agencies approved the shots developed by Moderna and by Pfizer with German partner BioNTech over the weekend.
The shots offer young children protection from hospitalization, death and possible long-term complications that are still not clearly understood, the CDC’s advisory panel said. Pediatricians and health experts are recommending that parents get very young children vaccinated, even if they have had a confirmed case of COVID, saying that vaccines also protect against reinfection.
The report will recommend giving Washington more authority on setting minimum health standards via nearly 3,000 state, local and tribal agencies. Above all, it will find that the inadequacies of the current system led to the death of more than 1 million Americans in the coronavirus pandemic and has exacerbated other health risks, including drug overdoses, diabetes and maternal mortality.
Coronavirus Update: MarketWatch’s daily roundup has been curating and reporting all the latest developments every weekday since the coronavirus pandemic began• Israel counted more than 10,000 new COVID cases on Sunday, the most since April 4, the Times of Israel reported. Data released by the Health Ministry also found that 168 people were in serious condition, up 95% from last week, with 37 classified as critical.
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