The company Moderna announced on Thursday that it had filed an application for authorization in the United States to be able to administer its vaccine against Covid-19 to children between 6 months and 5 years old.
“We believe that our vaccine will be able to protect these children in complete safety against SARS-CoV-2”, boasts in a press release Stéphane Bancel, the French CEO of the American firm.
Children under 5 are the last age group not yet able to be vaccinated in the United States as well as in many others, including France.
On Feb. 1, Pfizer and BioNTech filed an application similar to Moderna's for their under-five vaccine.
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The dossier must now be examined by the American Medicines Agency (FDA), which will study the data and assess the benefit/risk balance.
Of course, vaccinating a young child would only be done with the consent and wishes of the parents.
Some American parents are getting impatient because they would like their young children to be protected, at a time when we are "living with the virus" and the number of positive cases is on the rise again (moderate for the moment) in the United States. United.
According to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey, the results of which were released on February 1, three in ten parents of children under the age of 5 say they will have him or them vaccinated as soon as a product is approved for their age group, compared to two out of ten in July.