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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday expanded its authorization for the omicron-specific COVID-19 booster vaccine to include children under age 5.
Children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years who received the initial Moderna COVID-19 vaccine will become eligible for the Moderna booster if they completed their initial vaccine series at least two months prior.
For children aged 4 and younger who have not yet started their three-dose primary series of the vaccine manufactured by Pfizer-BioNTech, the updated booster will now be used as the third dose following two doses of the original Pfizer vaccine, according to the FDA.
Children who have already received all three vaccine doses in the Pfizer series will not be eligible for a booster dose at this time, FDA officials said, but the agency plans to review safety and effectiveness data in January for giving those children a fourth dose with the updated booster.
“More children now have the opportunity to update their protection against COVID-19 with a bivalent COVID-19 vaccine, and we encourage parents and caregivers of those eligible to consider doing so — especially as we head into the holidays and winter months where more time will be spent indoors,” FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf said in a statement.
The updated, “bivalent” boosters target both the initial COVID-19 strain and the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of the highly contagious omicron variant.
The updated boosters have been used for all booster vaccinations since the FDA approved them in early September, while the original mRNA vaccines are only currently authorized for initial vaccine series.
Anyone age 12 and up was originally eligible for the bivalent booster and children between the ages of 5 and 11 have been eligible since mid-October. Common side effects are similar to that of the original vaccine, including soreness at the injection site, fatigue and fever.
“Vaccines remain the best defense against the most devastating consequences of disease caused by the currently circulating omicron variant, such as hospitalization and death,” said Dr. Peter Marks, the director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.
“Based on available data, the updated, bivalent vaccines are expected to provide increased protection against COVID-19,” Marks said.
Give them the shot soon as Mom pops it out.
Why on earth would anyone abuse a child like that? The clot shot is straight poison & with a 98% survival rate plus all the people dropping from “SADS” it is absolutely insane to put that needle in yours or your child’s arm…but you do you.
Same reason they abuse children with circumcision in precisely the manner you describe. Satanic blood sacrifice.
eye yai yai. Not sure we’re allowed to say that out loud without being labeled a qanon domestic terrorist. Better check the DHS memos
Jealous, anteater?
“The updated, “bivalent” boosters target both the initial COVID-19 strain and the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of the highly contagious omicron variant.” And as i understand it was given EUA after being tested on 7 Mice. You can keep mine I don’t want any!
“As the virus evolves it remains our goal to be able to provide access to variant-adapted vaccines against COVID-19 to a broader population,” said Prof. Ugur Sahin, M.D., CEO and Co-founder of BioNTech. “With this authorization, the adapted vaccine based on the Omicron sublineages BA. 4 and BA.5 can become an important part of the primary vaccination series for young children.” Our children’s minds, bodies and futures are under attack, all under the guise that experts know better than the parents. Big Pharma is all about profit–EUA covid vaccines, puberty blockers (now advertised in American Girl book), antidepressants, and a fentanyl vaccine in the works…instead of stopping the flow of this drug into this country. Our children are being sacrificed right before our eyes!
Dear God no these crazy tyrants will not be happy until everyone is dead these experimental shots are so dangerous we’re learning more and more about the lethality of them everyday and the extremely dangerous side effects the blood clots that have never been seen before the heart conditions and they’re pushing the stuff on small children these crimes against humanity will be much bigger than the Nuremberg trials
As long as they can find a way to make more money, you will NEED this for your “health.”
If parents would take a few minutes to look at the numbers and the facts, not just the facts coming out of this administration they would not let their kids anywhere near the shot. I’m 69 and I got the shot and the booster because covid can be worse for old people. My choice. Kids don’t have a choice. They have to hope their parents make the right choice for them.