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at the Child Health Associates office in Novi, Michigan on November 3, 2021. - An expert panel unanimously recommended Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid vaccine for five- to 11-year-olds on November 2, the penultimate step in the process that will allow injections in young children to begin this week in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , the top US public health agency, was expected to endorse that recommendation later in the day.
“Despite low vaccination coverage, pediatric COVID-19 immunization in California averted 376,085 reported cases and 273 hospitalizations among children aged 6 months to 15 years over approximately 4 to 7 months following vaccination availability,” the researchers wrote in their study that was published in
Lead author Justin V. Remais of the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues, analyzed data on 3,913,063 pediatric Covid-19 cases and 12,740 hospitalizations in California. They then studied how pediatric Covid-19 vaccinations were introduced to children belonging to different age groups and calculated statewide outcomes that could be associated with vaccinations preventing or reducing new pediatric cases and Covid-19-related hospitalizations between April 2020 and February 2023.
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