Is The Covid Vaccine Safe For Children Pfizer Says Side Effects Similar To Young Adults
To this end, manufacturers such as Pfizer and Moderna are testing their shots—which are only authorized for emergency use in individuals as young as 16 and 18 respectively—on younger people to assess whether they are safe and effective in these age groups. But do we have any idea yet how safe the vaccines are for younger people? On Wednesday, American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech announced in a press release that their COVID-19 vaccine demonstrated 100 percent efficacy and a “robust” antibody response in a trial of more than two thousand participants aged between 12 and 15 years of age....