The timeline for when children younger than 5 in the United States might start receiving Covid-19 vaccinations has just been pushed back.
The US Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that it had postponed a meeting of its Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, which was intended to review data on Pfizer and BioNTech's request to authorize a two-dose series of their child-sized vaccine for children 6 months through 4 years old.
Until younger children are eligible to get vaccinated,"we've got to do our best to protect them," Dr. Stephen Parodi, national infectious disease leader for Kaiser Permanente, told CNN in November.
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