The Food and Drug and Administration is expected to give approval for the Pfizer COVID-19 booster shot for adolescents aged 12 to 15 years old within days, CNN reported.
The agency is also expected to allow children from 5 to 11 years old with immune deficiencies to also get the booster shot, according to theThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s advisory panel is also to allow the changes and is planning to meet by the middle of next week with CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky approving the revisions if the two agencies ' plans are the same.
Recent studies have shown that two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is not enough to protect against omicron but does protect against severe cases,
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