CDC OKs Pfizer's Covid vaccine for use in adolescents, clearing way for shots to begin Thursday

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A CDC advisory panel voted to endorse Pfizer’s Covid vaccine for use in kids ages 12-15. megtirrell reports.

's Covid-19 vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds, clearing the way for pediatricians to start giving out the shots across the U.S. as early as Thursday.

During Wednesday's meeting, CDC officials said there were no serious adverse events associated with the Pfizer-BioNTech shot in 12- to 15-year-olds out of more than 2,000 children in the companies' clinical trial. Most vaccine recipients, 91%, experienced side effects of some kind. After Wednesday's vote, several members expressed excitement that members of their own family could now get vaccinated. Others noted that access to the shots will help kids return to some normalcy after suffering a year of mental and social challenges due to the pandemic.

 

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megtirrell Nobody knows the long-term effects of the vaccine. Go study thalidomide. May not have been in US use, but effects weren’t known until defective babies were born. Then, time for the correlation to be made - more suffering. Then, 50 years to figure out why it caused birth defects.

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