The director of the American Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Rachel Wolansky, announced on Saturday that she had signed a recommendation from the organization's experts to extend the corona vaccine to the youngest age group: six months to 5 years old.
She announced the decision to adopt the experts' opinion in a special announcement, about a year and a half after it was decided to develop an accelerated vaccine for Corona and a day after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration decided to approve the special vaccines developed for this age group by Pfizer and Modern.
"We know that millions of parents and caregivers are waiting anxiously for the children to be vaccinated, and the decision today will allow that," the island said.
The vaccine, as mentioned, is not supposed to protect against infection, but it does protect against the symptoms of the disease that the corona virus can create, COVID-19.
The Pfizer vaccine for children is spread over three doses (with the third being eight weeks after the second dose).
The "Moderna" vaccine is defined as a two-dose vaccine four weeks apart.
Both vaccines have a special dose for this age group.
The CDC's decision is the final stop in the necessary approvals for the extension of the US vaccination campaign to the last age group that has not been eligible for the vaccine so far. In light of the decision, the Biden administration will start offering vaccines to infants and toddlers as early as next week.
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