Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine is safe and generated an immune response in children ages 6 months through 17 years that's comparable to the response in a
Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine is safe and generated an immune response in children ages 6 months through 17 years that’s comparable to the response in adults, according to documents posted by the US Food and Drug Administration ahead of key meetings of its independent vaccine advisory group, reported CNN. The FDA’s vaccine advisers will evaluate next week Moderna’s Covid 19 vaccines for children 6 months through 5 years and 6 years through 17 years should be granted emergency use authorization. Children under 5 years old, about 18 million people, are the only US age group that still isn’t eligible to receive a Covid 19 vaccine. Moderna’s vaccine is currently available only to people 18 and older. Pfizer’s Covid 19 vaccine is already authorized for children age 5 and older; FDA’s advisers will also evaluate its vaccine for younger children next week.
Briefing documents posted ahead of the FDA committee meetings describe how Moderna’s vaccine was assessed by immunobridging studies to see if the immune response among younger people was comparable to that of 18-to-25-year-olds, who are already eligible to receive the vaccine. “Immunobridging success criteria were met for all four pediatric age cohorts,” the FDA’s document stated. In trials evaluating more than 6,000 children 6 months to under 6 years old, Moderna found two 25-microgram doses of vaccine taken 28 days apart yielded a similar immune response to a two-dose series of vaccine given to 18-to-25-year-olds. For children ages 6 to 17 years, Moderna found two doses of its vaccine also provided a similar immune response as two doses in adults.
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