An FDA official has said that coronavirus vaccines for children under the age of 5 will be considered — and likely approved — as soon as June.
“We are not going to delay things unnecessarily here. This whole concept of delaying is not something we will be doing,”Once the agency has met with its advisers, the vaccines could be approved within the same month, Marks added, stating that the agency “would anticipate June authorizations for one or more of the pediatric vaccinations.”
While vaccines for children that are 5 years old and older have been granted emergency use authorization,, as mask requirements have been relaxed in many places, leaving those without vaccines vulnerable to infection. Concern for younger kids is warranted. The mortality rate for children under 5 is much lower than it is for others, but not nonexistent — indeed, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics,Many children have also suffered from long-term effects after contracting coronavirus, a condition that is commonly known as “long COVID.
Experts also warn that there is not enough research on long COVID in children to determine just how widespread it is, though in the United Kingdom, it’s estimated that
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