Children have been infected in greater numbers in the latest coronavirus wave driven by the Delta variant, and inoculating young people is seen as key to keeping schools open and helping end the pandemic.
US drugmaker
Pfizer said Thursday it has formally requested emergency use authorization for its
Covid-19
vaccine in children age five to 11.
Children have been infected in greater numbers in the latest
coronavirus wave driven by the Delta variant, and inoculating young people is seen as key to keeping schools open and helping end the pandemic.
In late September,
Pfizer and
BioNTech, the German biotechnology giant which co-developed the
vaccine, began submitting data to Food and Drug Administration regulators for the highly anticipated authorization.
Pfizer tweeted early Thursday that the two companies had "officially submitted our request" to the FDA "for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of our #COVID19
vaccine in children 5 to