FDA = US Food and Drug Administration's external expert committee concludes yesterday that Pfizer and Moderna's new coronavirus vaccine "benefits outweigh the risks" for people aged 6 months to under 5 years of age I summarized.
If the FDA decides to permit emergency use, people under the age of 5 will be vaccinated for the first time.
In the United States, Pfizer's "5 years and older" is currently the youngest target age for the new coronavirus vaccine.
Pfizer has applied to the FDA to expand this target age from 6 months to under 5 years old, and Moderna from 6 months to under 6 years old.
On the 15th, the FDA held a committee of external experts to discuss the matter, in which the two companies showed the results of their respective clinical trials and said, "Sufficient effects have been obtained and their health effects. There were no new concerns about this, either. "
Experts commented that "the risk of aggravation of children is relatively low, and the need should be carefully considered", but the final statement was "there is an option to enable vaccination". We unanimously concluded that "the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks" and recommended the FDA to increase the target age.
Vaccines are given by
Pfizer three times in a tenth of an
adult and Moderna twice in a quarter of an adult
.
If the FDA decides to permit emergency use in response to this conclusion, people under the age of 5 will be the first to be vaccinated with the new coronavirus vaccine in the United States.