Kids under 12 could soon get COVID-19 vaccinations — Here are answers to 5 key questions for parents
The finish line for children ages 5 to 11 to get vaccinated is likely just steps away following the Food and Drug Administration’s independent advisory committee’s stamp of approval for the Pfizer PFE, +0.95% /BioNTech BNTX, -0.86% vaccine Tuesday.
“This is one of the best ways to protect your child and family from COVID-19,” said Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse, a pediatric infectious disease specialist with the Mayo Clinic Children’s Center. And more than 25,000 pediatricians and primary-care providers have already signed on to administer COVID-19 vaccine shots to kids, according to a White House brief.
But just as with teens and adults, they’ll have to wait three weeks to receive their second doses and an additional two weeks to get nearly 91% protection against symptomatic infection, according to a Pfizer study of more than 2,000 elementary-school-age children. Importantly, “most children will not have symptoms severe enough that they need to miss school,” she said. Kids can take over-the-counter medications like Tylenol or ibuprofen to treat “bothersome” symptoms, Rajapakse added.
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