Posted on 02/01/2022 4:08:01 PM PST by Enlightened1
In an extraordinary move, the FDA had urged Pfizer and its partner BioNTech to apply earlier than the companies had planned.
WASHINGTON — Pfizer on Tuesday asked the U.S. to authorize extra-low doses of its COVID-19 vaccine for children under 5, potentially opening the way for the very youngest Americans to start receiving shots as early as March.
In an extraordinary move, the Food and Drug Administration had urged Pfizer and its partner BioNTech to apply earlier than the companies had planned.
The nation’s 19 million children under 5 are the only group not yet eligible for vaccination against the coronavirus. Many parents have been pushing for an expansion of shots to toddlers and preschoolers, especially as the omicron wave sent record numbers of youngsters to the hospital.
If the FDA agrees, Pfizer shots containing just one-tenth of the dose given to adults could be dispensed to children as young as 6 months. Pfizer said Tuesday it had started submitting its data to the FDA and expects to complete the process in a few days.
An open question is how many shots those youngsters will need. Pfizer is testing three shots after two of the extra-low doses turned out to be strong enough for babies but not for preschoolers, and the final data from the study isn’t expected until late March.
That means the FDA may consider whether to authorize two shots for now, with potentially a third shot being cleared later if the study supports it.
The FDA said Tuesday it will convene a panel of independent researchers and physicians in mid-February to help review the Pfizer data. The agency isn’t required to follow the panelists' advice but their input is a key step in publicly vetting vaccine safety and effectiveness.
The FDA’s ultimate decision could come within the month but that isn’t the only hurdle. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also has to sign off.
The Biden administration has been trying to speed the authorization of COVID-19 shots for children, contending vaccinations are critical for opening schools and day care centers and keeping them open, and for freeing up parents from child care duties so they can go back to work.
Yet vaccination rates have been lower among children than in other age groups. As of last week, just 20% of kids ages 5 to 11 and just over half of 12- to 17-year-olds were fully vaccinated, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Nearly three-quarters of adults are fully vaccinated.
While young children are far less likely than adults to get severely ill from the coronavirus, it can happen, and pediatric COVID-19 infections are higher than at any other point in the pandemic.
“What we’re seeing right now is still a lot of hospitalizations and unfortunately some deaths in this age group,” said Dr. Sean O’Leary of the University of Colorado, who is on the AAP's infectious disease committee. If the FDA clears vaccinations for these youngsters, “that’s going to be really important because all of those hospitalizations and deaths essentially are preventable.”
For kids under 5, Pfizer’s study is giving participants two shots three weeks apart, followed by a third dose at least two months later. The company is testing whether the youngsters produce antibody levels similar to those known to protect teens and young adults.
In December, Pfizer announced that children under 2 looked to be protected but that the antibody response was too low in 2- to 4-year-olds. It's not clear why, but one possibility is that the extra-low dose was a little too low for the preschoolers.
Since the preliminary results showed the shots were safe, Pfizer added a third dose to the testing in hopes of improving protection.
Given how well boosters are working for older age groups, “it makes some sense” that younger children could benefit from a third shot, O'Leary said. “I certainly can understand where both the company and the FDA are coming from in terms of wanting to move this along, anticipating that there’s going to be a third dose down the line.”
Pfizer asked because they determined they could murder kids with far smaller doses.
Insanity on steroids.
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The insane part - Pfizer is asking??? Citizens would be asking , and begging for a vax if Covid was so deadly. The Covid flu is gone, no longer a pandemic, not even endemic. Kids have a higher chance of getting struck by lightening than dying on Covid.
It’s all about MONEY.
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Money going to who? Demoncrats to rig the next election?
I wouldn’t give that stuff to my dog 🤪
The sad thing is, there are parents who will lunge to get it for their little ones.
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Those same parents are the ones that will vax their kids just so they don’t get it. Many of my kids friends parents have said so. Sacrificing the young for the old. Evil, very evil parents.
How could the FDA/CDC deny approval. According to them, despite their overriding advisory groups, this is an emergency and any Jab is authorized and any early treatments and prophylactics are outlawed.
“...Authorize Extra-Low Doses Of Its COVID Vaccine For Children As Young As 6 Months Old”
Good. The myocarditis and death won’t be so bad.
Next. Pfizer gets approval to inject your nut sack so conception is protected.
They must REALLY be trying to murder millions of people.
The evil ghouls need to be dealt with in a big way.
NEVER take, or buy, ANYTHING with the Pfizer name on it...ever.
Big pharma, politicians, doctors, hospitals.
Gives ‘em a way to kill some of the babies that escaped abortion.
These people are monsters.
Why not kill them in the crib? It just makes sense. 😐
This is evil.
Pfizer is demonic.
No, no, no, a thousand times no. Any idiot that gets their baby jabbed is insane.
The DR. Nagase report on the Pfizer documents watch it here.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/eSxUENhWsIit/
About 3/4 of the way through, he is asked about reduced dosage for kids.
He says it doesn’t matter. 1/3, 1/4, even 1/10 of a dose will create the same number of spike proteins as a full dose, it will just take longer.
Dosing kids, BABIES, with this poison is INSANITY!
This vaxxine hysteria is right out of the movie “The Invasion” with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427392/
A Thriller of a movie. A MUST SEE.
The parallels with todays insanity of forcing everyone to get vaxxed is frightening. Then once vaxxed (infected) those people become obsessed with EVERYONE ELSE getting infected (in our case, vaxxed).
GREAT movie! Scary how it almost mimics what is going on today.
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