FDA authorizes Pfizer, Moderna Covid-19 vaccines for children as young as 6 months
More than 18 months after adults were able to start receiving Pfizer-BioNTech’s and Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccines, kids as young as six months are on the verge of being able to get inoculated against the pandemic virus.
The FDA authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines Friday morning under EUA after the agency’s outside advisors unanimously favored (21-0) administering the shots. Parents and caregivers just have to wait for the CDC to sign off before the youngest of America’s kids can get the vaccine.
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