The US Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use authorization for the use of the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines in the youngest children, the last age group to be vaccinated in most of the country.
The agency approved Moderna’s two-dose vaccine for children six months to five years and three doses of Pfizer’s vaccines for children six months to four years.
“Many parents, caregivers and clinicians have been waiting for a vaccine for younger children and this action will help protect those down to six months of age,” Food and Drug Administration chief Robert Califf said in a statement.
“We expect that the vaccines for younger children will provide protection from the most severe outcomes of Covid-19, such as hospitalisation and death.”
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