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News Articles: Kids COVID vaccine

Finn Washburn, 9, receives an injection of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in San Jose, Calif., in November. Now the pharmaceutical companies are seeking authorization to give kids a booster dose of the vaccine.

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  • Health

Pfizer asks FDA to authorize booster shots for kids ages 5 through 11

Data show that a third dose can help boost kids' immunity. Some experts are skeptical that another shot is needed for younger kids.

April 26, 2022
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By:
  • Rob Stein

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  • Health

Vaccinate and test. That advice isn't much help to parents who have kids under 5.

Parents of children too young for vaccines are exhausted. As omicron surges, they keep trying to protect their kids. But some feel isolated and even forgotten by those who just want to move on.

January 28, 2022
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By:
  • Bram Sable-Smith
mother holding a child and sitting next to a second child

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  • Children's Health

Omicron is leading Georgia’s highest-ever case count of COVID-19 infection among children

COVID-19 cases among children are the highest they’ve been since the start of the pandemic.  

 

January 07, 2022
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Three generations, (from left to right) grandmother Genoveva Calloway, daughter Petra Gonzales, and granddaughter Vanesa Quintero, live next door to each other in San Pablo, Calif. Recently their extended family was hit with a second wave of COVID infections a year after the first.

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COVID hit 13 members of their family the first time. A year later it struck again

The second time Vanessa Quintero's family caught the virus, probably from her 8-year-old daughter, fewer people got sick. They and their doctors credit the protection of vaccination.

November 27, 2021
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By:
  • Lesley McClurg

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  • Education

COMIC: If history is a guide, schools will start requiring COVID vaccines

The first vaccine required for school was for smallpox, over 200 years ago. And for decades, all states have required that kids be vaccinated against contagious diseases like polio to attend school.

November 05, 2021
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By:
  • Anya Kamenetz and
  • LA Johnson
Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for young children is a lower-dose formulation of the companies' adult vaccine. It was found to be safe and nearly 91% effective at preventing COVID-19.

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CDC recommends Pfizer's COVID vaccine for children ages 5 through 11

Kids ages 5 to 11 will soon be able to get Pfizer's low-dose COVID vaccine. CDC director Rochelle Walensky agreed with a unanimous decision of a team of advisers that the benefits outweigh the risks.

November 03, 2021
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By:
  • Joe Neel,
  • Carmel Wroth,
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