After weeks of a troubling Covid-19 surge across the US, infection rates are finally on the decline — but experts say there's still work to be done before the tide can be turned, especially when cases remain exceptionally high among children.
Child deaths from a preventable illness like Covid-19, no matter how few, are motivation for authorizing a vaccine in children, the US Food and Drug Administration's top vaccine official said Tuesday.
"In this latest wave of Covid-19, particularly down south, there have been thousands of children hospitalized. And, frankly, it's an embarrassment in a developed country to have even 100 children, like we've had, die of infectious disease that's preventable," Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director Dr. Peter Marks said in a town hall hosted by the Covid-19 Vaccine Education and Equity Project.
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