Pfizer is expected to ask the F.D.A. to authorize its #Covid vaccine for children under 5.
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/us/politics/children-covid-vaccine.html
#Pfizer and its partner BioNTech are expected as soon as Tuesday to ask the Food and Drug Administration to authorize a coronavirus #vaccine for children under 5 years old as a two-dose regimen while they continue to research how well three doses work.
Federal regulators are eager to review the data in hopes of authorizing shots for young children on an emergency basis as early as the end of February, according to multiple people familiar with the discussions, who were not authorized to speak publicly. If Pfizer waited for data on a three-dose regimen, the data would not be submitted until late March and the vaccine might not be authorized for that age group until late spring.