Health Canada has a second COVID-19 vaccine for children to consider approval, and Moderna added its request to Pfizer-BioNTech’s pending effort on Tuesday.
The federal agency has not yet approved any vaccine for use by children under 12 years of age in Canada, while in the United States the White House last week he said about 900,000 children 5 to 11 year olds were vaccinated in the first week after Pfizer-BioNTech’s Comirnaty dose was authorized for use.
Health Canada said he received the request of Moderna for its Spikevax (for children 6 to 11 years) on Tuesday and would only authorize its pediatric use “if its independent and thorough scientific review of the data in the presentation shows that the benefits of the vaccine outweigh the risks in this group of age . “
The inoculations of both brands are messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, which teach our cells how to make a protein that will trigger an immune response to COVID-19 within our body. They are the first commercial applications of a technology developed over decades.
In the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration licensed the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for use by children ages five to 11 in late October and the Centers for Disease Control gave final approval on November 2.
But Health Canada said last Friday it would still need another week or two to consider the presentation it received on October 18.
Just over half of Canadian parents plan to immediately vaccinate their children when a pediatric dose is available. according to a recent Angus Reid pollWhile 23 percent said they would never give their children a COVID-19 vaccine, and 18 percent said they would wait.
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The national vaccination hesitancy rate rose as 30 percent of parents in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Quebec said they do not plan to vaccinate their children. About 15 percent of parents would reject it in Ontario, British Columbia, and Atlantic Canada.
Older children in Canada have been eligible to receive the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines since the summer break, leaving those under 12 as the demographic most exposed to COVID-19 as colder weather brings more of our lives into interiors.
Younger people are less likely to require hospitalization due to COVID-19, but several thousand young people have been admitted during the course of the pandemic in Canada.
Older children in Canada have been eligible to receive the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines since the summer break, leaving those under 12 as the demographic most exposed to # COVID19 as colder weather brings more of our lives indoors. .
Morgan Sharp / Local Journalism Initiative / Canada National Observer
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