What parents need to know about the Pfizer vaccine — and why kids age 5-11 will get a much smaller dose.
Moderna hasn’t yet published any findings from its trial in younger children, though it’s alsoResearchers “are taking into account the typical age-related weights and how the medicine will distribute through the body,” Dr. Frank Esper, a pediatric infectious diseases specialist at Cleveland Clinic Children’s, told HuffPost.
Indeed, pediatric experts often emphasize that children are not just little adults from a physiological perspective. And the pandemic has made that clear. Kids are much less likely to become severely ill with or die from COVID-19, and theirIf your child isn’t old enough for a vaccine yet ... wait.of vaccinating their children, others have been counting down the minutes until they’re eligible. But Esper cautioned against getting, say, an 11.5-year-old an adult-size dose of the vaccine now.
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