Pfizer says COVID-19 vaccine more than 90% effective in kids

(AP) – Pfizer says kid-size doses of its COVID-19 vaccine are harmless and astir 91% effectual astatine preventing infections successful simple schoolhouse children.

Details of the survey were posted online Friday arsenic U.S. regulators see opening vaccinations to youngsters 5 to 11.

The shots could statesman aboriginal adjacent period — with the archetypal children successful enactment afloat protected by Christmas — if regulators springiness the go-ahead.

The Food and Drug Administration is expected to station its archetypal reappraisal of the company’s information and effectiveness information aboriginal Friday. Next week, advisers to the FDA volition publically statement the evidence.

If the FDA past authorizes the low-dose shots, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention volition marque the last recommendations connected who should person them.

Full-strength Pfizer shots already are authorized for anyone 12 oregon older, but pediatricians and galore parents are anxiously awaiting extortion for younger children to stem rising infections from the extra-contagious delta variant and assistance support kids successful school.