No COVID vaccines are available to the youngest children, but vaccine makers aim to change that soon.
UnsplashModerna’s COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective in children aged 6 months to 5 years old, the vaccine maker said Wednesday, citing a newly completed Phase 2/3 study. The company hopes the Food and Drug Administration will soon authorize emergency use of its vaccine in that age group.
While the vaccine efficacy percentages seem low, Moderna said in a statement that they are on par with what would be expected of a two-dose vaccine against the Omicron variant, which was the most prevalent variant at the time of the trial. None of the vaccinated children experienced severe disease, hospitalization, or death. Seventeen percent of 6-month to 1-year-olds and 14.
Vaccinating the youngest cohorts of our population “has been somewhat of a moving target over the last couple of months,” Bill Muller, an investigator in Moderna’s pediatric studies, told. “There’s still, I think, a lingering urgency to try to get that done as soon as possible.”
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