Pfizer on fast track to getting its vaccine for under-fives approved

Cases among children reached a record high in the US in December, leading to earlier than expected FDA submission

02 February 2022 - 19:38 By Josh Wingrove and Riley Griffin

Pfizer and partner BioNTech say they have started submitting data to US regulators for authorisation of their Covid-19 vaccine for younger children, hastening an effort to get shots to more of them after the Omicron wave caused paediatric infections to jump...

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