COVID-19 vaccines for kids under 5 might be coming soon. Here’s what we know.

Here’s what we know about COVID-19 vaccines for kids under 5.

If the shots are approved in March, they could arrive in Chicago soon after. Allison Bartlett, a pediatric infectious diseases specialist at the University of Chicago Medicine, said that when previous vaccines for older children were approved, they arrived in Chicago the same week.Initially, Pfizer studied giving two doses of their vaccine to children ages 6 months to 5 years.

What do we know about what protection might be expected from two shots, especially for children ages 2 to 5? The earlier a child gets the first and second shot, the earlier they could get a potential third. And with Bartlett emphasizing there have been no safety concerns, “there’s not a huge downside to going ahead and doing the first doses now.”The vaccine for these youngest kids will be one-tenth the strength of the adult shot.

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