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Pfizer asks FDA to allow COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 5
WGN 9 News ^ | Feb 1, 2022 | AP News

Posted on 02/01/2022 2:11:25 PM PST by Freedom56v2

WASHINGTON (AP) – 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 EXTRODINARY 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 young as 6 months.

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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IN AN EXTRODINARY MOVE, the FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION HAD URGED PFIZER AND ITS PARTNER BIONTECH TO APPLY EARLIER THAN THE COMPANIES HAD PLANNED.

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. Down to 6 months...

More at website.

1 posted on 02/01/2022 2:11:25 PM PST by Freedom56v2
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To: Freedom56v2

Evil.


2 posted on 02/01/2022 2:14:21 PM PST by imabadboy99
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To: Freedom56v2
Zero justification as the risk from the vaccines is probably orders of magnitude greater than the WuFlu for young children.

Just more profits and the execs care not one whit about how many more kids are injured or killed. Being completely immune from lawsuits, they can also manufacture them in the filthiest, least regulated and cheapest facilities because they also have no concern about contaminants.

3 posted on 02/01/2022 2:15:07 PM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: pierrem15

I keep reading articles that it doesn’t even work against Omicron1—and of course, we now have Omicron2 in the country.


4 posted on 02/01/2022 2:17:31 PM PST by Freedom56v2 (It's not the job of the unvaxxed to protect the vaxxed. That's the job of the "vaccine.")
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To: Freedom56v2

criminal


5 posted on 02/01/2022 2:18:16 PM PST by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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Twenty years from now I predict we will have record low fertility rates among first world cultures, but nobody will be able to make any correlations of the cause


6 posted on 02/01/2022 2:20:20 PM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: Freedom56v2

do kids under five get regular flu shots? or just this poison...


7 posted on 02/01/2022 2:27:05 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Freedom56v2

Yeah because they’re dangerous carriers with a near 100% chance of recovery. Brought to you by...PFIZER.

BTW when the “vax” wears off in six months with the new one year old child get their 2nd shot?


8 posted on 02/01/2022 2:35:37 PM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: Freedom56v2

As of today there has not been a single dose on an APPROVED Vaccine from ANYONE given to anyone in the USA

They have and will continue to use the EUA vaccine, COMINARTY is NOT Available in the US.

We need NUREMBERG II


9 posted on 02/01/2022 2:36:42 PM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Karliner

BTW when the “vax” wears off in six months with the new one year old child get their 2nd shot

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Actually, according to article, some age groups under 5 may get 3 in first 3 months?:

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.

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.


10 posted on 02/01/2022 2:41:41 PM PST by Freedom56v2 (It's not the job of the unvaxxed to protect the vaxxed. That's the job of the "vaccine.")
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To: Freedom56v2

How much bribe money?


11 posted on 02/01/2022 2:42:56 PM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Jyotishi

Sweden did not get enough because they are ending vaccines for 5-11 y.o.s.


12 posted on 02/01/2022 2:47:56 PM PST by Freedom56v2 (It's not the job of the unvaxxed to protect the vaxxed. That's the job of the "vaccine.")
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To: Chode

The CDC vax schedule for children is batshit crazy. And yes they recommend yearly flu shots starting at 6 months.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/easy-to-read/child-easyread.html


13 posted on 02/01/2022 3:34:50 PM PST by JoanSmith
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To: Freedom56v2

Never give up the con.


14 posted on 02/01/2022 3:35:53 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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To: Freedom56v2

“Ask”? Since when does Pfizer have to ask. Just hand out the rubber stamp and get on with it!


15 posted on 02/01/2022 3:38:24 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Freedom56v2

Covidcide. Should have been Andy’s nickname while he was still Governor of New York. “Covidcide Cuomo.”


16 posted on 02/01/2022 3:39:23 PM PST by Bernard ("The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision." Fulton Sheen)
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To: Freedom56v2

“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.”

How frigging stupid do they believe we are. It has already been largely reported and verified that the lion’s share of hospitalizations are for other illnesses with the virus being found with testing. What a bunch of horse hockey.


17 posted on 02/01/2022 3:40:54 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: lastchance

How frigging stupid do they believe we are. It has already been largely reported and verified that the lion’s share of hospitalizations are for other illnesses with the virus being found with testing. What a bunch of horse hockey.


Tho they are catching on, the people who watch prava news are totally brainwashed or unaware with Mass Formation Psychosis...


18 posted on 02/01/2022 3:47:22 PM PST by Freedom56v2 (It's not the job of the unvaxxed to protect the vaxxed. That's the job of the "vaccine.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

HOW in the world can an infant or toddler report adverse events during the trials, short of death or a seizure???

(Not that any deaths or seizures during the trials would seem to be of any concern to the sponsors or the review committee, based on prior FDA approvals for other age cohorts...)


19 posted on 02/01/2022 3:52:37 PM PST by goldenfero (Man Plans and God Laughs)
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To: JoanSmith

thank you... so the insanity has been there for awhile then


20 posted on 02/01/2022 4:03:30 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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