About 900,000 children ages 5 to 11 received their first Covid-19 shot within the first week of eligibility, sources within the Biden admin. say.
And approximately 700,000 more have appointments to get their first dose. The source of those numbers was unclear Wednesday morning; the Centers for Disease Control declined to confirm them ahead of a planned media briefing.The CDC cleared the way for children in this age group to get Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine on Nov. 2.
Pfizer previously reported that its vaccine is more than 90 percent effective against symptomatic illness in this age group. Despite the increase in childhood vaccinations, it will most likely be January before the shots make a difference in the number of people sickened with Covid-19, Kelly Dougherty, deputy health commissioner for the Vermont Department of Health, said.
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