Prognosis
How Soon Can Your Child Get a Covid Shot? Here’s What We Know
There are a few more boxes for regulators to check before shots can begin.
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A panel of leading vaccine experts has backed the Covid-19 vaccine for kids age 5 to 11 from Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE. So how soon can you have your kid roll up their sleeve? There are a few more boxes for regulators to check before shots can begin:
First, the Food and Drug Administration needs to decide whether to adopt the experts' recommendation and authorize the vaccine. That's likely to happen some time in the next few days.