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Updated: 4:48 PM EDT May 13, 2021 TAMPA, Fla. The Food and Drug Administration on Monday expanded emergency use authorization for Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine to kids ages 12-15. The number one question now: Is the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine safe, and do pediatricians recommend it? Dr. Christina Canody is the medical director of the pediatric service line for BayCare. So my response to that is that we have experience now with millions of doses that have been given out. And I know it s preliminary data that we have out. But knowing that this is a pandemic, and that we re seeing more infections and kids, more severe infections with the new strains that are out there. This is one conduit to kids getting back to living their lives normally, and not being scared of the infections, as well as the infection that continue to go throughout our world, she said. ....