Not content with the ‘jabbing’ of children over the age of 12 with their Covid vaccine, Pfizer and BioNTech are now preparing to seek approval from U.S. and European medicines agencies for their vaccine in 5-11 year-olds. MailOnline has the story.
Dr. Özlem Türeci, Chief Physician for BioNTech, told German news site Der Spiegel that the companies are set to shortly release results from their study in kids under age 12 and will ask for the shot to be approved for emergency use authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other agencies.
“In the coming weeks, we will present the results of our study on the 5-11 year-olds worldwide to the authorities and apply for approval of the vaccine for this age group,'”Türeci said.
She added that the vaccine formula is the same as that approved for adolescents and adults, but that the dose size is smaller.
Currently, the Pfizer vaccine is only approved for children aged 12 and older in both the U.S. and the European Union.
Parents and doctors have been debating about whether or not to inoculate children because they make up 0.1% of all Covid deaths in the U.S.
A few hours after the new from Pfizer and BioNTech, the FDA said that clinical trial data submitted by vaccine manufacturers must include a monitoring period of at least two months after the final dose to ensure safety. …
Around 4,500 younger kids have been enrolled at nearly 100 clinical trial sites in 26 U.S. states, Finland, Poland and Spain. …
If the vaccine is proven to be safe and effective, the trial will be unblinded at the six-month follow-up, meaning those who received [a] placebo will be allowed to get the inoculation.
Trials for kids as young as six months to four years old are still in early stages and will expand once the researchers can determine safety.
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Let me get this straight. We (mankind) are not doing enough research into new antibiotics to combat existing bacterial infections. The only solution is to create a new* bug and research antibiotics against that? Looks like research funding is being misdirected again.
*Yes, I know the article is about an ‘old’ bacterium but if it’s new to science it’s ‘new’.
It’s like they’ve taken the lid off the Pandora gain-of-function sweety jar and simply don’t want to put it back on. Until we’re all dead.
It might be a good idea to put the money to better use and start filling in the thousands of potholes in the countries roads..
I don’t want my tax money filling in potholes in roads in any other countries, thanks.
Potholes in my own country’s roads, OK, maybe.
Well I was talking about the UKs.. what country are you talking about.. haha
I could name a good few things that might fill the potholes. We have them here too. If I was a conspiracy thinking type, I’d think that there is an agenda to run down the road system and damage the car stock…
Yes and we certainly don’t want to fill the potholes with money.
“Neanderthal bacteria” never went away. Neanderthals still exist. I mean this seriously, by the way, and not as a term of reproach for people like, say, Matt Hancock.
All I can say to these In Q Tel people is “please GOFROC yourself.”
It’s like suggesting that we move the planet into the path of all the planet-killing comets and asteroids out there to look at what killed off the dinosaurs.
Gawd, scientists are a pessimistic bunch aren’t they? Surely we have all bases covered nowadays in terms of antibiotics, antivirals, many other medications, nutraceuticals plus advanced medical technology and healthcare in general. We’re hardly going to fare as badly as in the Middle Ages when the Black Death ravaged the globe and people had basically nothing to fight it with, so I think the amount of expense and all round faff involved in this endeavour cannot be remotely justified. Scientists just like tinkering and generally mucking things up, which demonstrably results in a massive crapfest. Leave zombie viruses and bugs dormant and where they can do no harm…or safely in the fictitious plots of sci-fi books/movies.
Seconded Mogs.
Next step, digging up the bodies of Black Death victims to analyse the Black Death… just in case. Application to the Wuhan lab!
Now, now Dom, no giving Billy ideas.
Am I the only person who got the ‘take home message’ from the film ‘Jurassic Park’..?
Gingers are ginger because of the Neanderthal gene, allegedly. Explains a lot.
Dammit, that face is so intelligent! He’s got a knowing look about him that I could warm to, although he’s not blessed with conventional good looks.
I could do without his bugs, though.
There’s no antiviral in the world that would make it worth doing this stupid thing just to prove that they can. We’ve got plenty of drugs already – they just keep banning the things as soon as they go off-label.
I’m developing a strange interest in Barbara O’Neil’s old-wife remedies: I doubt you’d get serious side effects from sticking an onion poultice on your ear if it ached.
And have you seen her video about cayenne pepper? First aid in the event of heart attacks?