Pfizer Covid Vaccine For Kids Under 5 Could Be Authorized In The Next Month, Fauci Says

The vaccine will hopefully be approved by the FDA within the next month or so, according to the White House chief medical advisor.

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Fauci said during a virtual town hall meeting with Blue Star Families that the vaccine will be available for kids under 5 in the next month or so.

Fauci said that younger children will probably need three doses of the vaccine as a two-dose course produced a weak immune response in trials.

Fauci told the Blue Star Families CEO that Pfizer was delayed from submitting data to the FDA and that the vaccine for young children was extended.

Fauci said that he couldn't out-guess the FDA when it came to authorizing the vaccine.

Pfizer would not say when the vaccine would be approved, but pointed out that it took just over three weeks to get emergency use authorization for the vaccine.

The rapid spread of the highly transmissible omicron variant, which now accounts for 99.5% of U.S. Covid cases, has coincided with a rise in the number of children hospitalized. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there was a dramatic jump in the number of children hospitalized with Covid-19 between January 11 and January 17.

The doctor told NBC that people have tried to downplay the significance of the disease in children. We've spent the last two years refuting myths about Covid and children. It's not.

The number is big.

93,552. The CDC says how many children have been hospitalized with Covid.

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Pfizer said it would submit data to the FDA if trials of a three-dose vaccine course were successful, but Fauci suggested a slower time frame.

Pfizer's Covid vaccine could be approved by the FDA in the next month.