A C.D.C. panel is expected to recommend shots for 5- to 11-year-olds. The Biden administration has enlisted 20,000 health workers and shipped 15 million doses ahead of the decision.<\/p>\n
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized the vaccine<\/a><\/strong> for emergency use in those age groups, following a near-unanimous recommendation from its advisers last week. On Tuesday, a similar committee advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will have its say. (The meeting is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. Eastern time and will be streaming here.)<\/p>\n If, as expected, the advisers recommend the vaccine and the agency\u2019s director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, signs off, the decision would most likely ease the worries of millions of parents and buttress the United States\u2019 defenses against the virus before winter arrives.<\/p>\n Inoculations for children ages 5 through 11 could then begin this week. Anticipating the agency\u2019s decision, the Biden administration has enlisted more than 20,000 pediatricians, family doctors and pharmacies to administer the vaccines.<\/p>\n About 15 million doses are already being packed with dry ice, loaded into small specialized containers and shipped via airplanes and trucks to vaccination sites across the country, federal officials said on Monday.<\/p>\n The younger children will receive one-third of the dose authorized for those 12 and older, delivered by smaller needles and stored in smaller vials to avoid a mix-up with adult doses.<\/p>\n The C.D.C.\u2019s guidelines for the vaccine\u2019s use are not legally binding, but heavily influence the medical community\u2019s practice. An endorsement would be timely, as Americans begin to plan for the winter holidays.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisers, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, is schedule to vote Tuesday whether to recommend Pfizer<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s Covid-19 vaccine<\/strong> for children ages 5 to 11. It\u2019s the last step before CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky will make a final decision on the vaccine.<\/p>\n In the meeting that will run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET, Pfizer will present its data to the advisers in the morning. In the afternoon, the committee will hear from the CDC, which will discuss the overall need young children have for this vaccine, as well as any potential side effects.<\/p>\n One side effect under discussion is the risk of myocarditis \u2013 an inflammatory heart condition. It\u2019s rare but has been seen in some adolescents and adults who got the Pfizer\/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines.<\/p>\n Dr. Grace Lee, the chair of the committee, told CNN while data is limited, the surveillance systems in place are doing a good job picking up on vaccine safety signals. She said the CDC is also doing a long-term study of people who develop myocarditis after vaccination.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n On Friday, the Supreme Court declined to intervene in a vaccine mandate in Maine that applies to all healthcare workers, even if they object to the mandate for religious reasons. But while the court did not act in this case, the positions of several justices put on the table the possibility that in the future they might overturn a mandate without a religious exemption.<\/p>\n Most states allow religious exemptions to vaccine mandates in one form or another. These exemptions generally allow individuals to avoid complying on First Amendment grounds. Maine\u2019s rule had no such exemption, and several healthcare workers appealed to the courts for emergency relief, meaning that the court did not hear the full arguments for or against it. The Supreme Court allowed the Maine rule to stand, but three justices posted a strong dissent suggesting that they would have put the mandate on hold. Two others refused the stay simply because the case was requesting emergency relief.<\/p>\n It is well in line with previous Supreme Court precedent\u2014including from the past year\u2014to uphold a vaccine mandate without a religious exemption as compatible with the First Amendment. It\u2019s also the right thing on policy grounds. Two characteristics of vaccine mandates work against requiring religious exemptions: First, they are safety rules, designed to prevent physical harm and save lives. Second, many requests for religious exemptions come from people whose real opposition to vaccines is not religious. In light of these two elements, the Supreme Court should not require religious exemptions.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n Some people with moderately or severely compromised immune systems may need a fourth dose of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine six months after a third shot, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Protection said this week in updated guidance.<\/p>\n It was only last August that the CDC authorized a third dose of vaccine for moderately and severely immunocompromised people, noting that they may not develop a full immune response from just two doses. Immunocompromised people who are fully vaccinated make up \u201ca large proportion\u201d of breakthrough cases needing hospitalization, the CDC says.<\/p>\n \u201cModerately and severely immunocompromised people aged \u226518 years who completed an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine primary series and received an additional mRNA vaccine dose may receive a single COVID-19 booster dose (Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, or Janssen) at least 6 months after completing their third mRNA vaccine dose,\u201d the CDC said in its updated guidance. \u201cIn such situations, people who are moderately and severely immunocompromised may receive a total of four COVID-19 vaccine doses.\u201d<\/p>\n The CDC is not making a recommendation on a fourth \u201cadditional\u201d dose — which differs from a booster shot — but urges people to discuss the possibility with their health care providers.<\/p>\n The CDC says severely or moderately immunocompromised people make up about 3% of the U.S. population. Falling under that definition are people receiving active cancer treatment for tumors or cancers of the blood, diagnosed with advanced or untreated HIV infection, undergoing active treatment with high-dose corticosteroids or other drugs that may suppress the immune response, and organ transplant and stem cell recipients.<\/p>\n The fourth-dose guidance doesn\u2019t apply to people who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which doesn\u2019t use mRNA technology. Immunocompromised people who got the one-shot J&J vaccine should get a second shot of any approved vaccine at least two months after the first shot, the CDC says.<\/p>\n The CDC differentiates between \u201cadditional\u201d shots and \u201cbooster\u201d shots.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u201cAn additional dose is administered to people with moderately to severely compromised immune systems,\u201d the CDC says. \u201cThis additional dose of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine is intended to improve immunocompromised people\u2019s response to their initial vaccine series. A booster shot is administered when a person has completed their vaccine series, and protection against the virus has decreased over time.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n also read :<\/p>\n The CDC is updating its recommendations this week to say that the seriously immunocompromised can get a fourth booster shot 6 months after their third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that people can get boosters that are different from the vaccine they originally received. So if you got Pfizer six months ago, you could get a booster from Moderna or Johnson & Johnson, as long as you are eligible otherwise.<\/p>\n Most people who get COVID-19 are unvaccinated. However, since vaccines are not 100% effective at preventing infection, some people who are fully vaccinated will still get COVID-19. An infection of a fully vaccinated person is referred to as a \u201cbreakthrough infection.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\nCovid-19 vaccine for kids: Live updates on the CDC meeting<\/h2>\n
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