Developing COVID Vaccine For Kids
BioNTech and Pfizer Testing COVID Vaccine for Kids Source: BioNTech & Pfizer Breakthrough Medical Innovation Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech hope to be able to vaccinate children under 12 years old against COVID-19 by early 2022. Early stage trials started in late March 2021. The volunteers (via their parents) are as young as 6 months old. The Pfizer BioNTech COVID vaccine for adults was the first authorized for use in the US in mid December 2020 and among the first to hit global markets in late fall 2020. In the US alone, 66 million people have received it. Shot In The Arm Only the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine is being used on 16 and 17 year old teens in the US. Moderna's vaccine has been cleared for those 18 years...