Prognosis
Canada Approves Pfizer Covid Shot for Adolescents
- Decision allows Trudeau to expand lagging vaccination push
- Fauci says U.S. authorization expected ‘within several days’
Photographer: Christinne Muschi/Bloomberg
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Canada became one of the first countries to approve the use of the Pfizer Inc.-BioNTech SE Covid-19 vaccine for adolescents as young as 12.
The shot was initially approved in December for those 16 and older. The decision by the country’s public-health officials comes ahead of a similar clearance that is expected soon from regulators in the U.S. It allows Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government to expand its vaccination campaign to adolescents.