The youngest Americans will have access to variant-targeting boosters already available to older children and adults.
The Food and Drug Administration, in a statement, said children 6 months through 5 years old would be eligible for the booster — known as a “bivalent” shot targeting omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 and the original version of the virus — two months after they have completed Moderna’s two-dose primary series., for children 6 months through 4 years old.
professor of pediatrics and molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine. “It’s like arguing over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.”But federal health officials, eyeing a rise in covid-19 cases and pediatric hospitalizations because of an array of respiratory germs, believed it was important to make updated shots available to the youngest age groups.
The BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, which were circulating widely this summer, have faded, and are responsible for less than 15 percent of cases, according to the CDC. They have been replaced byOfficials say the bivalent formulation will offer improved protection against the latest crop of omicron subvariants.
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