Coronavirus Watch: Vaccines for youngest kids available as soon as next week
America's youngest children could soon have access to two long-awaited COVID-19 vaccines.
An FDA panel voted Wednesday to support a Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children ages 6 months to 5 years. Vaccines will be available for young children as soon as Tuesday.
The panel also recommended Moderna's vaccine for children ages 6 months to 6 years old. So far, only Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine has been allowed for children.
Read the full story from reporter Karen Weintraub here.
It's Thursday, and this is Coronavirus Watch from the Paste BN Network. Here's more news to know:
- Dr. Anthony Fauci, the face of the nation's pandemic health response and chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday.
- A new NIH trial found that ivermectin is not effective at treating COVID-19, adding to a mountain of evidence against the controversial antiparasitic as a COVID treatment.
- Few COVID-19 patients get rebound symptoms after taking Paxlovid as a treatment for the virus, according to a Mayo Clinic study.
See our COVID-19 resource guide here. See total reported cases and deaths here. On vaccinations: About 78% of people in the U.S. have received at least one vaccine shot, and about 67% are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC.
– Cady Stanton, Paste BN Nation NOW reporter, @cady_stanton