An expert panel on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to recommend the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorize the Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, saying the benefits of inoculation outweigh the risks.
An authorization for that age group would be would be an important regulatory step toward reaching about 28 million children for inoculation, most of them back in school for in-person learning.
The vaccine could be available to the younger age group as soon as next week. The FDA is not obligated to follow the advice of its outside experts, but usually does.
If the FDA authorizes the shots for this age group, an advisory panel to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will meet next week to make a recommendation on the administration of the vaccine. The CDC director will make the final call.
The companies have said their vaccine showed 90.7% efficacy against the coronavirus in a clinical trial of children aged 5 to 11.
While children becoming seriously ill or dying from COVID-19 is relatively rare compared with adults, some develop complications, and infections in unvaccinated kids have risen due to the easily transmitted Delta variant of the coronavirus.
“To me, the question is pretty clear,” said Dr. Amanda Cohn, a pediatric vaccine expert at the CDC and a voting member of the panel. “We don’t want children to be dying of COVID, even if it is far fewer children than adults, and we don’t want them in the ICU.”
Read more at NEWSMAX.
{Matzav.com}
Well, duh. The FDA is as corrupt as they come. They are getting huge kickbacks from the Pharmicuticals.
“While children becoming seriously ill or dying from COVID-19 is relatively rare compared with adults, some develop complications, and infections in unvaccinated kids have risen due to the easily transmitted Delta variant of the coronavirus.”
and
“We don’t want children to be dying of COVID, even if it is far fewer children than adults, and we don’t want them in the ICU.”
Outweighs the risk, you say?
Did anybody else notice, over the past year, they never give us the factual numbers?
They never mention the statistics about how many (otherwise healthy) children suffered long-term problems from covid, compared to the average Flu season? (or even mosquito bites…)
And they never share with us openly how many (otherwise healthy) little kids died from covid compared to vehicle accidents.
Is it perhaps because if the public saw those numbers, compared side-by-side, all responsible parents would scoff at the idea of vaccinating growing/developing children with a vaccine that has no long-term record?
The vaccines are to be considered experimental until it’s out there for at least 5 years!