Moderna asks the FDA to expand the use of its Covid-19 vaccine to children ages 6 months to 5 years.
The agency is expected to seek the advice of its advisory committee, the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee.
Moderna chief medical officer Dr. Paul Burton told NBC News that the lower efficacy against infection was due to the extremely contagious omicron variant, which has dealt a blow to the effectiveness of the current vaccines for other age groups as well. found that during the winter omicron surge, children under 5 were hospitalized at about five times the rate they were during the delta wave.that, by February, three-quarters of children and teens in the U.S. caught Covid at least once, though agency officials noted it remains unclear how long that protection from those previous infections will last or whether it's as robust as the protection provided by the vaccines.
Pfizer is also preparing to submit data to the FDA on a potential three-dose regimen of its vaccine for children under 5.
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