America’s youngest children have moved one step closer to getting the COVID vaccine.
On Tuesday, advisers to the Food and Drug Administration endorsed the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children as young as five. The committee found the benefits of the shot outweighed the risks of a rare cardiac side effect. The vote was 17 to 0 with one abstention.
Although the advice is not binding, the agency is all but certain to grant emergency authorization for the vaccine.
We speak to Dr. Hayley Gans, a member of the FDA’s Advisory Committee reviewing COVID vaccines.
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