Coronavirus Update: Fauci foresees vaccination of 5- to 11-year-olds by November
The U.S. is on track to start vaccinating children aged 5 to 11 by early to mid-November, Dr. Anthony Fauci assured parents on Sunday, with an advisory committee to the regulator slated to meet Tuesday and vote on the use of the vaccine developed by Pfizer with German partner BioNTech for that age group.
The FDA said Friday that the vaccine generated an efficacy rate of 90.7% against symptomatic infection in 2,268 elementary-school-age children seven days after they got the second shot. The most common side effects occurred after the second dose and included pain at the injection site, fatigue and headache. There were no serious adverse events associated with the vaccine, according to the FDA.
Merck and Ridgeback have disclosed data from a Phase 3 trial of molnupiravir that showed it reduced the risk of hospitalization or death in adults at risk from severe COVID-19 by 50%. While several effective vaccines have been developed against the illness, far fewer treatments have emerged, and those that have require infusions and must be administered in a clinical setting.
iframe.twitter-tweet { width: 100% !important; } The CDC’s vaccine tracker shows that 190.6 million people in the U.S. are fully vaccinated, equal to about 57.4% of the population and below the 70% threshold experts say is needed to stop the spread. Bulgaria, which has the lowest vaccination rate in Europe at about 25% of its population, currently has the highest mortality rate from COVID in the 27-nation European Union, with 94% of deaths happening in unvaccinated people, Euronews reported.
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