CDC advisory group votes to recommend Pfizer kids vaccine
. Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been more than 1.9 million Covid cases, more than 8,300 hospitalizations and 94 deaths due to Covid among children ages 5 to 11 in the United States, Dr. Jefferson Jones, a medical officer with the CDC, said Tuesday.
Oliver noted that the hospitalization rate seen in children with Covid is comparable to what's seen during an average flu season — but was still happening despite the intense mitigation measures in place over the course of the pandemic. Flu hospitalizations during the pandemic, on the other hand, were virtually nonexistent., or multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, is most common in kids 5 to 11, Jones said.
Pfizer reported that its vaccine was nearly 91 percent effective against symptomatic illness in its clinical trial of 5- to 11-year-olds. Dr. Kate Woodworth, a general pediatrician at the CDC, said during a presentation that common side effects included arm pain and swelling at the injection site, as well as fever, fatigue and achiness. Woodworth added that side effects in kids may be less common than those in teens and adults., an inflammation of the heart muscle, is rare. It’s most commonly reported in boys and young men under 30 after their second dose of an mRNA vaccine.
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