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Covid-19 vaccines could be available for kids as young as 6 months this year Jun 08, 2021, 09:55 PM
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Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. (Patrick Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)
Pfizer and Moderna said they could have Covid-19 vaccines for kids as young as 6 months by the Northern Hemisphere autumn.
Pfizer told The New York Times it would start testing its vaccine in infants in the next few weeks.
Covid-19 vaccines could be available for children as young as 6 months in the US by the Northern Hemisphere autumn, Pfizer and Moderna told The New York Times on Tuesday.
Pfizer announced on Tuesday that it was testing its Covid-19 vaccine in 5- to 12-year-olds. The drugmaker told The Times that it would likely start testing the shot in kids as young as 6 months in the next few weeks.