The European Union’s health agency approved the Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE for children between the ages of 12 and 15 years old, a move that will give a boost to the continent’s vaccination campaign.
The decision on Friday by the European Medicines Agency greatly increases the pool of people in the EU who can be vaccinated at a time when the infection rate has begun falling quickly. The U.S. began administering the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to kids 12 to 15 earlier this month. The EMA gave the green light after reviewing data from a trial in which none of the 1,005 children who got the vaccine developed Covid-19. Of the 978 who got the placebo, 16 got Covid. The results were similar to those from
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