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Pfizer vaccine trial in kids shows 91% efficacy against COVID-19

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COVID-19 vaccine showed 90.7% efficacy against the coronavirus in a clinical trial of children 5 to 11 years old, the U.S. drugmaker said on Friday.Sixteen children in the trial who had received a placebo got COVID-19, compared with 3 who were vaccinated, Pfizer said in briefing documents submitted to the U.S.

Food and Drug Administration.Because more than twice as many children in the 2,268-participant trial were given the vaccine than placebo, that equates to better than 90% efficacy.

Pfizer asks Health Canada to approve COVID-19 vaccines for children aged 5-11 Pfizer’s clinical trial in those 5 to 11 years old was not primarily designed to measure efficacy against the virus.

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