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tonight, 28 million children are pfizer and biontech have asked the f.d.a. to authorize their vaccine for use in children ages 5-11 at one-third of adult dosage. you want to maximize protection with the fewest amount of side effects. reporter: dr. grace lee leads the c.d.c. advisory board. she s a pediatrician at stanford. like many other children s hospitals, we have had children who have died of covid. i think that while the vast majority of children can tolerate the infection and do well, we also know that sometimes we re not a able to predict well who will suffer severe consequences. reporter: kids make up 22% of the population but 27% of newly reported covid cases. immunizing them could help prevent scenes like this: danville, pennsylvania, schools forced to close this week because quarantine rates were too high.

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