The FDA expands Pfizer vaccines reinforcements for children over 12 years as OMICRON increases
Warning Victisement by Lauran Dutoardasociated Press |Jan 03, 2022at10: 41 am
EE.UU.It is expanding Covid-19's reinforcements (Boosters) while facing OMICron increase, and food and medication administration allows additional Pfizer injections for children of only 12 years.
The reinforcements are already recommended for all people 16 years or older, and federal regulators decided on Monday that they are also guaranteed for people aged 12 to 15 once enough time has spent since their last dose.
AdvertisementDónde encontrar sitios de prueba de COVID-19 »But the measure, which occurs when classes restart after holidays, is not the final step.Centers for disease control and prevention must decide whether to recommend reinforcements for younger adolescents.Dra is expected.Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC, is pronounced at the end of this week.
The FDA also said that all people over 12 who are eligible for a Pfizer reinforcement can receive one as soon as five months after their last dose instead of six months.
AdvertisementThe FDA Vaccine Chief, DR.Peter Marks said in a stateto defend against infections.
Dónde obtener tratamiento con anticuerpos monoclonales para COVID-19 en Florida »Israel's real world data accumulated more than 6.300 children aged 12 to 15 who received a reinforcement there at least five months after their second dose of Pfizer and did not find serious security problems, said the FDA.
Similarly, the FDA said that even more Israel data showed no problem giving someone eligible for a Pfizer reinforcement that additional dose a month before the six months that until now has been the US policy.UU.
Vaccines still offer strong protection against serious diseases caused by any type of COVID-19.But health authorities urge all eligible people to receive a reinforcement dose to have the best opportunity to avoid milder infections of the mutant Omicron highly contagious.
Children tend to suffer less serious diseases by COVID-19 than adults.But children's hospitalizations are increasing during the Ola Ola, most of them without vaccinating.
The vaccine manufactured by Pfizer and its Biontech partner is the only US option.UU.For children of any age.Approximately 13.5 million young people aged 12 to 17, just over half of that age group, have received two Pfizer injections, according to CDC.
For families who hope to keep their children as protected as possible, the age limit generated doubts.
Major adolescents, 16 and 17, became eligible for reinforcements in early December.But the original vaccines opened for younger teenagers, those of 12 to 15, in May.That means that the first in the row in spring, potentially millions, have spent as many months after their last dose as a little older teenagers.
As for even smaller children, the doses for children aged 5 to 11 were launched more recently, in November, and experts say that health.But the FDA also said on Monday that if children so young have the severely weakened immune system, they will be allowed a third dose 28 days after the second.That is the same time as the third dose that is already recommended for adolescents and immunosuppressed adults.
Pfizer is studying his vaccine, in even smaller doses, for children under 5 years.
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