Pfizer Inc has begun submitting data to federal regulators as part of the process to win U.S. emergency use authorization (EUA) of its COVID-19 vaccine for children under age 5, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.
A person walks past a Pfizer logo in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., April 1, 2021. REUTERS/Carlo Allegrihas begun submitting data to federal regulators as part of the process to win U.S. emergency use authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine for children under age 5, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.
The vaccine from Pfizer and partner BioNTech is already approved for emergency use in children in the United States ages 5 and older. It has full approval for adults.Representatives for Pfizer, as well as for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services, could not immediately be reached for comment on the report.
Pfizer, in a statement late on Monday, said it had not yet sought approval and was "continuing to collect and analyze data from both two and three doses in our younger age cohort."
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