U.S. FDA authorizes Pfizer's COVID booster shot for young children

Health experts react to FDA's emergency use authorization of COVID-19 booster shots for kids ages 5 to 11

The Food and Drug Administration has granted an emergency use authorization for a third dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for kids between the ages of 5 and 11.

US FDA authorizes Covid-19 booster shots for children 5 and older

Last year, Health Minister Joe Phaahla said no Covid-19 vaccine was approved for use in South Africa on children aged below 12 years

Pfizer COVID-19 booster gets emergency FDA authorization for kids 5-11

The booster should be given at least five months later.

Pfizer-BioNTech COVID booster shot gets USFDA emergency use nod for children aged 5 to 11

The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, which is based on BioNTech’s proprietary mRNA technology, was developed by both BioNTech and Pfizer.

US Regulatory Authority Authorizes Pfizer Booster Doses for Children

May 17, 2022 - Washington - EFE.The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized this Tuesday the use of a booster dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against covid-19 for children between 5 and 11 years of age. “Although it is true that covid-19 is usually less severe in children than in adults, the omicron wave has caused more children to be sick and hospitalized,” said FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf in a statement. The docto…

FDA approves COVID booster shot for kids 5 to 11

(Image by Art Skoo from Pixabay)Members of the FDA's vaccine advisory panel last fall reluctantly recommended approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5-11 amid a lack of safety data.A panel member, Dr. Eric Rubin, editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, famously said during the hearing, "We're never going to learn about how safe the vaccine is unless we start giving it – that's just the way it goes."But now – am…