Prognosis
Millions of Kids’ Covid Vaccines Shipped Ahead of CDC Clearance
- About 15 million Covid doses to be delivered by next week
- Doses shipped after FDA authorization pending CDC’s sign-off
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An estimated 15 million doses of kids’ vaccines will arrive at thousands of sites across the U.S. over the next week as the White House prepares for widespread inoculations if the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention signs off.
The Food and Drug Administration’s Friday authorization of the Pfizer Inc.-BioNTech SE vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11 was a “critical operational milestone” that allowed doses to start shipping, said Jeff Zients, who is President Joe Biden’s Covid-19 response coordinator.