US experts fear that children won’t get a coronavirus vaccine in time for the new school year
With the United States awaiting the availability of a safe and effective vaccine for the coronavirus, children, who constitute more than one-fifth of the population, will need to wait longer than many others for immunization children.
On Sunday, Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said it is going to take time, perhaps even months, before those younger than 18 can get a coronavirus vaccine, as trials to test the vaccine candidates’ immunogenicity are either underway or have yet to begin. Pfizer, which is developing a vaccine with German partner BioNTech, announced in October they were expanding testing of their vaccine to those 12 and older. A similar announcement is expected soon from Moderna, which has partnered with the National Institutes of Health on an experimental vaccine, with Fauci hinting an expedited process to test the vaccine in children would begin “very likely in January.”
US experts fear that children won’t get a coronavirus vaccine in time for the new school year
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