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CDC advisers vote to recommend giving Pfizer s Covid-19 vaccine to 12- to 15-year-olds
From CNN’s Maggie Fox
Family members look on as Jack Frilingos, 12, is inoculated with Pfizer s vaccine against Covid-19 after Georgia authorized the vaccine for ages 12 and up, at Dekalb Pediatric Center in Decatur, Georgia on on May 11. Chris Aluka Berry/Reuters
Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Wednesday to recommend use of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in youths age 12 to 15.
The US Food and Drug Administration extended its emergency use authorization of the vaccine to the younger age group Monday. It’s up to the CDC to recommend the use of the vaccine in the new age group.