The US President encourages parents to make sure children 'get the shot', after the CDC backs the use of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds in a unanimous vote.
US President Joe Biden has urged parents to get their children vaccinated after a government advisory panel authorised Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 12 to 15.Mr Biden has called the authorisation "one more giant step" in the country's fight against the pandemicApproximately one-third of all Americans have been fully vaccinated, according to CDC data
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices , which provides recommendations to the CDC, voted 14-0 to back the vaccine after reviewing trial evidence. "This will provide protection for 12- to 15-year-olds," said Dr Henry Bernstein, a member of the advisory committee and professor of paediatrics at Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.
"I think we should be in full school, full in-person school, in the fall," CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said at a CNBC health event on Tuesday.Children have been considered by health officials as being at a lower risk for severe COVID-19, but they can still spread the virus.
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