Australian parents will likely have to wait a couple more months before children under five can get their COVID-19 jabs according to Allen Cheng, the previous chair of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation
., Cheng – who is a member of ATAGI – said that it was likely the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines would be “rolled out in a couple of months as the TGA [Therapeutic Goods Administration] and ATAGI look at it, people are trained [to deliver the jab] and we get the vaccine”.
“While I understand some parents are scared and anxious about their kids getting COVID, it’s not a dangerous disease in that group [kids aged under five].” But the roll-out of a fourth dose to the general population could also be some months away because, Cheng said, three doses gives good protection against severe disease for younger, healthier people.