The move, if signed off on by the FDA, would expand eligibility to 28 million children in the U.S.
cleared its first regulatory hurdle Tuesday for use in young children, after a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee voted to recommend it for emergency use authorization for those ages 5 to 11.
Despite the vote in favor, deciding whether the benefits of vaccination for young kids outweigh potential risks appeared to weigh heavily on the advisors."This is a much tougher one, I think, than we had expected coming into it," said committee member Dr. Eric Rubin, editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine."The data show that the vaccine works and it’s pretty safe, ...
"I think the likelihood that this vaccine is going to be effective is pretty likely in the six to 11 year old age group," Meissner said."The issue is side effects or adverse events that might be occurring after the vaccines." To committee member Dr. Amanda Cohn, a chief medical officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the benefits of vaccination were much clearer.
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