A three year old receives the Covid-19 vaccination, with Moderna, at Temple Beth Shalom in Needham, Massachusetts on June 21, 2022.
The temple was one of the first sites in the state to offer vaccinations to anyone in the public. - US health authorities on Saturday cleared the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines for children aged five and younger, in a move President Joe Biden greeted as a"monumental step" in the fight against the virus. updated COVID-19 boosters
"Since children have gone back to school in person and people are resuming pre-pandemic behaviors and activities, there is the potential for increased risk of exposure to the virus that causes COVID-19," said Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, in aMarks noted that while COVID-19 can be less severe in children than adults, many children have been hospitalized throughout the pandemic.
“These data and real-world experience with the monovalent mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, which have been administered to millions of people, including young children, support the EUA of the bivalent COVID-19 vaccines in younger age groups,” the agency said.