Pfizer will have enough Covid vaccines available for every U.S. kid following clearance, CEO says
"The U.S. government has placed orders with us that basically covers every kid in this country. So, the supply will be there and hopefully a lot of kids will benefit from it," Bourla said on CNBC's "Pfizer vaccines for kids ages 5 to 11 were authorized by the Food and Drug Administration on Friday. On Tuesday, the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices was reviewing data before deciding on whether to recommend the shots for children in that age group.
Children have accounted for 16.6% of Covid cases in the U.S., but have remained in the low single-digit percentile of Covid hospitalizations in the 24 states reporting,, 652 children in the U.S. have died from Covid since the start of the pandemic. Pfizer is working on a Covid antiviral pill similar to the one being developed by pharmaceutical rivaland its partner, Ridgeback Biotherapeutics. Internal data at Merck shows the company's treatment reduces the risk of hospitalization and death from Covid by 50% in high-risk patients.
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