Covid-19 roundup: Vac­cine for the youngest kids may be com­ing soon; Mod­er­na wins PRV with full ap­proval

A Covid-19 vac­cine for chil­dren 6 months to 5 years old may be ready by the end of this month, ac­cord­ing to a scoop from the Wash­ing­ton Post.

Pfiz­er and BioN­Tech may sub­mit an EUA re­quest to the FDA “as ear­ly as Tues­day” for this youngest group of chil­dren, even as they re­cent­ly an­nounced a set­back for the two-shot se­ries, which showed that when com­pared to the 16- to 25-year-old pop­u­la­tion in which high ef­fi­ca­cy was demon­strat­ed, non-in­fe­ri­or­i­ty was met for the 6- to 24-month-old pop­u­la­tion but not for the 2- to un­der 5-year-old pop­u­la­tion.

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