also expected to authorize Pfizer’s vaccine for the young by next week, setting up shots for many before the beginning of the next school year.
The announcement comes barely a month after the company found that its shot, which is already authorized for those age 16 and older, also provided protection for the younger group.Pfizer in late March released preliminary results from a vaccine study of 2,260 U.S.
volunteers ages 12 to 15 showing there were no cases of COVID-19 among fully vaccinated adolescents compared with 18 among those given dummy shots.FILE - A doctor draws up a syringe with a COVID-19 vaccine in Berlin, Germany on May 5, 2021. (Photo by Wolfgang Kumm/picture alliance via Getty Images) Kids had side effects similar to young.