Pediatricians Want Kids to Be Part of COVID Vaccine Trials ...Middle East

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If clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines aren’t expanded soon to include children, it’s unlikely that even kids in their teens will be vaccinated in time for the next school year. The hurdle is that COVID vaccine makers are only in the early stages of testing their products on children. The Pfizer vaccine authorized for use by the Food and Drug Administration on Friday was greenlighted only for people ages 16 and up. Moderna just started trials for 12- to 17-year-olds for its vaccine, likely to be authorized later this month. It will take months to approve use of the vaccines for middle- and high school-aged kids, and months more to test them in younger children. But some pediatrician

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