The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it had granted emergency use authorization for updated COVID-19 vaccine boosters for Americans as young as 5 years old.
"FDA's authorization of updated COVID-19 vaccines for this younger age group, and CDC's recommendation for use, are critical next steps forward in our country's vaccination program—a program that has helped provide increased protection against severe COVID-19 disease and death," CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said in a statement.
These new bivalent shots are manufactured in a nearly identical process from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, aside from adding in a component designed to target the BA.4 and BA.5 variants. A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to a request for comment on how many shots were requested of the new Pfizer vaccines for younger ages. of the same formulation that is already being distributed for older age groups, and did not need to be pre-ordered.
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