“Having cared for many children that have been in the ICU on ventilators for COVID … and having cared for several children that have died of COVID, we need to be able to prevent COVID-19.”
children in the United States during the peak of omicron, a rate five times as high as that seen during the delta variant’s peak, researchers reported in March in theRoughly 1 in 4 children under 5 hospitalized with COVID-19 end up in the intensive care unit, said pediatrician Evan Anderson of Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta during a presentation at the FDA’s advisory committee meeting.
against different coronavirus variants, including omicron, than did those who only had a SARS-CoV-2 infection, researchers reported in May inVaccination against COVID-19 even in those previously infected is still important to help protect against future infections and prevent severe disease, Oliver said.
of vaccines because of the need to balance their robust response to the shots with keeping expected side effects, like fever, manageable .