NBC News Special Report: FDA advisory panel recommends Pfizer's Covid vaccine for emergency use in kids ages 5 to 11.
cleared its first regulatory hurdle Tuesday for use in young children, after a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee voted to recommend it for emergency use authorization for those ages 5 to 11.
Committee member Dr. Cody Meissner, a professor of pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, agreed. "It just seems to me that in some ways, we’re vaccinating children to protect the adults, and it should be the other way around," said committee member Dr. James Hildreth, president and CEO of Meharry Medical College in Tennessee."I do believe that children at highest risk do need to be vaccinated. But vaccinating all of the children ... that seems a bit that much for me."
Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine researcher at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a committee member, acknowledged the difficulty of the decision.
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