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CDC recommends corona vaccinations for young children
The health authority CDC has now also spoken out in favor of the use of coronavirus vaccines in children aged six months and older. Photo: Robert Michael/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa
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In the USA, the corona vaccines for children from six months of age have now received a second recommendation from Biontech and Moderna.
After an advisory board to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the CDC has also spoken out in favor of using coronavirus vaccines in children between the ages of six months and five years.
Both the vaccine from the manufacturers Biontech and Pfizer and the preparation from Moderna could be used for around 18 million small children, the experts decided on Saturday, according to US media reports. This means that nothing stands in the way of vaccination in the age group after the formal signing by CDC boss Rochelle Walensky. According to the US government, it could start on June 21st.
Biontech/Pfizer’s vaccine is currently approved in the US for children ages five to 11, and Moderna’s vaccine for people ages 18 and older. On Tuesday, however, the FDA advisory committee had already spoken out in favor of approving Moderna’s vaccine for children and adolescents between the ages of 6 and 17.
There is currently no corona vaccine approved for very young children in the EU. The European Medicines Agency EMA in Amsterdam is currently examining whether the vaccine from the manufacturer Moderna (Spikevax) can also be approved for children under the age of six. Such a test has not yet started for the vaccine from the manufacturers Biontech and Pfizer. According to the EMA, the manufacturers have not yet submitted a corresponding application for an extension of the approval.