FDA plans to broaden eligibility for Pfizer-BioNTech Covid booster shots to children ages 12 to 15 in the coming days, a person with knowledge of the plan says.
Ava Kreutziger, 14, gets her first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine at the Ochsner Center for Primary Care and Wellness in New Orleans on May 13. The CDC recommended the Pfizer vaccine for teenagers ages 12 to 15.Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
The Food and Drug Administration plans to broaden eligibility for Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 booster shots to children ages 12 to 15 in the coming days, a person with knowledge of the plan said. The omicron variant of the coronavirus continues to spread rapidly in the U.S., accounting for about 58 percent of all new Covid cases for the week that ended Saturday, according toMeanwhile, Covid-19 cases among children are increasing, with nearly 199,000 reported for the week that ended Dec. 23, a 50 percent increase over the weekly reported cases at the beginning of December,
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