{"id":47471,"date":"2022-10-14T07:30:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T11:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/?p=47471"},"modified":"2022-10-14T07:30:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T11:30:43","slug":"cdc-recommends-new-omicron-boosters-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/cdc-recommends-new-omicron-boosters-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC Recommends New Omicron Boosters for Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bivalent COVID-19 Vaccine Booster<\/p><\/div>\n

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/strong> has recommended the new omicron boosters<\/strong> for kids as young as age 5.<\/p>\n

CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky<\/strong> signed off on the shots Wednesday, just hours after the Food and Drug Administration<\/strong> authorized them. Walensky made the swift decision without a meeting of the CDC\u2019s independent panel of vaccine experts.<\/p>\n

Children ages 5 to 11 are eligible for Pfizer<\/strong>\u2019s omicron shots and kids ages 6 through 17 are eligible for Moderna<\/strong>\u2019s shots two months after receiving their primary series or previous booster with the first generation vaccines.<\/p>\n

Pharmacies can start administering the shots as soon they have doses. According to a company statement, Pfizer said it will ship to up 6 million booster doses for kids within the next week.<\/p>\n

Pfizer\u2019s new boosters were cleared for people ages 12 and up in September, while Moderna\u2019s were authorized for adults ages 18 and older.<\/p>\n

The FDA hopes the new boosters, which target the dominant omicron BA.5 subvariant, will provide substantially better protection against infection and disease compared to the first generation of Covid shots.<\/p>\n

The FDA authorized the BA.5 shots for kids without direct human data on their effectiveness. The agency cleared the boosters based on adult data from a similar shot that targets the omicron BA.1 subvariant.<\/p>\n

The agency also looked at clinical studies in kids who received the original vaccines as boosters.<\/p>\n

The new boosters target omicron BA.5 as well as the original strain of Covid<\/strong> that first emerged in Wuhan, China, in 2019. The FDA hopes the shots will provide durable protection even as the virus continues to evolve because they cover a broad range of mutations.<\/p>\n

The first generation of Covid shots were developed in 2020 to target the original strain of Covid. They are no longer providing meaningful protection against infection and mild illness because they do not match the dominant omicron variant, which has mutated to evade the antibodies that block the virus from invading human cells.<\/p>\n

According to CDC data, more than 11 million Americans ages 12 and older have received the new booster shots so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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