Is the COVID-19 vaccine safe for kids? Yes. The FDA authorized Pfizer's vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds after assessing the safety of doses given to 3,100 youngsters. Those doses are a third the size of those given safely to millions of teens and adults.
Yes, U.S. regulators authorized Pfizer’s vaccine for younger children after millions of 12- to 17-year-olds already safely got the shot, the only one available for children in the country.
A study found kid-size doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine were 91% effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19. The 5- to 11-year-olds developed virus-fighting antibodies as strong as teens and young adults who got regular doses, with similar or fewer annoying reactions such as sore arms, fever or achiness.
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