U.S. regulators on Thursday cleared doses of the updated COVID-19 vaccines for children younger than age 5.
The Food and Drug Administration's decision aims to better protect the littlest kids amid an uptick in COVID-19 cases around the country -- at a time when children's hospitals already are packed with tots suffering from other respiratory illnesses including the flu.
The FDA now has authorized use of the tweaked shots starting at age 6 months -- but just who is eligible depends on how many vaccinations they've already had, and which kind. Only about 5% of youngsters under age 5 have gotten the full primary series since vaccinations for the littlest kids began in June.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to sign off soon, the final step for shots to begin. But children under 5 who already got all three Pfizer doses aren't yet eligible for an updated booster.The FDA expects data from Pfizer and its partner BioNTech sometime next month to determine whether those tots will need an omicron-targeted booster "and we will act on that as soon as we can," he said.
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