Kids and Covid-19: Here’s when the FDA plans to authorize the vaccine for children | Just the FAQs

The FDA says teens are next in line for the COVID vaccine. Here's what parents should know about the Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines. RELATED:

The Food and Drug Administration will soon authorize the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents ages 12-15, who could be eligible to receive the shots as early as next week, according to media reports.

The New York Times was the first to report about the FDA's impending authorization on Monday, which has been widely expected. CNN also reported the development.

The highly anticipated decision, which is likely to be supported by the Centers for Disease Control and prevention, would allow most middle and high school students to get vaccinated before summer camps and the start of the 2021-22 school year.

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10 comments

  1. The FDA is a vestigial remnant of better days and now exists to throttle the competitors of large corporations.

  2. A man who created vaccines that saved millions is a blessing from god and yet religious anti-vaxxers condemn him for that?

  3. The world has to pull the scales back into personal autonomy. Where’s all the my body my choice people? Why is the injection of chemicals agents into the body that literally changes the Rna of that person not worth studying in adults through a normal testing period. Yet, less than 1 year after being put into use, the corporations want to inject the least affected by the sickness and say it’s for public safety. Just stop to think this through, there are reasons the scientific process takes years.

  4. छुप जा छुप जा घर में छुप जा
    कोरोना वायरस सड़क पर घूमता
    लॉकडाउन से घबड़ाकर मरते दिखता
    डॉक्टर भी मार मारकर धोते दिखता
    इटली ईरान में चीनी वायरस लहलहाते दिखता
    अमेरिका भी बहुत विवश दिखता
    कोरोना सायरन जोर जोर से बजते दिखता
    फिर भी दुनिया मुकदर्शक दिखता
    मक्का मदीना और गुरूद्वारा रोके
    मंदिर में भी लटके ताले
    सब धर्म के लोग लगे हैं
    मरकज में कोरोना -कोरोना पुकारे
    चीनी वायरस कोरोना वायरस
    भेद भाव नहीं करता वायरस
    फ्री वीजा लेकर घूमता वायरस
    ट्रक में भरकर दफनाता वायरस
    रक्तबीज कोरोना है बहुत बलवान
    तीब्रगति से लेता है सबकी जान
    कहाँ छुपा है परमाणु बलवान
    रक्तबीज कोरोना से कर लो दो दो हाँथ
    छुप जा छुप जा घर में छुप जा
    कोरोना वायरस सड़क पर घूमता

  5. “Cling ye to the hem of virtue, and hold fast to the cord of trustworthiness and piety. Concern yourselves with the things that benefit mankind and not with your corrupt and selfish desires”.

    (Baha’u’llah, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p.

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