The FDA can approved the Pfizer Covid shot for children under 5
A nurse prepares doses of the Pfizer vaccine during a Covid 19 vaccination behavior at Josephine’s Southern Cooking in Chatham, Illinois, December 30, 2021.
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The Food and Drug Administration is considering being able to revoke their approval PfizerThe Covid 19 vaccine for healthy children under 5 years of age confirmed to CNBC on Tuesday.
The move could leave many children without available shot against the virus Modern And Novavax are deleted for more limited population groups. While Covid typically causes slight symptoms in most children, others, such as infants under 1 or those with certain health conditions, can be exposed to a higher risk of serious illnesses and hospital stays.
If the FDA brings approval, this would lead to a number of recent efforts by the US health authorities to change and undermine the immunization policy, since the secretary for health and human service, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent skeptic of vaccines, took over the rudder. HHS did not immediately answer a request for comment.
The FDA announced Pfizer that it could not extend its long -term need for need for children aged 6 months to 4 years, the company said in a statement. Pfizer said that the approval was asked to remain for the upcoming autumn and winter season, and “currently in discussions with the agency about potential paths”.
The company said that the “considerations” of the FDA are not related to the security and effectiveness of the shot “, which continues to show a favorable profile.”
The Guardian reported for the first time about the potential step of the FDA. Modern Working with the centers for the control and prevention of diseases to increase the deliveries of their own covid shot for children, the Guardian reported on Saturday.
In July, the FDA granted the Covid vaccine from Moderna for children full approval – but only for people with another health states that may expose them to an increased risk of serious illnesses if they are infected. The Moderna and Pfizer recordings use the Messenger -RNA technology.
Kennedy targeted these vaccines in the past and submitted a petition in May 2021 in which the agency revokes the approval of the JABs.
In the meantime, NovavaxThe protein base shot has never been available for children under the age of 12.
In May, Kennedy announced that the centers for the control and prevention of diseases have eliminated his recommendation of covid vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women.
In updated days later, however, the CDC said that the shots could be given “these children” if a doctor agreed that this was necessary. Covid vaccines during pregnancy are now listed as “no instructions/not applicable”, where they were previously recommended for all pregnant adults.
