Kids as young as 12 are now eligible to get booster shots.
Data suggests thatafter about six months, Dr. Jaime Deville, clinical professor of pediatrics in the division of infectious diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital, told TODAY. That, plus evidence showing that omicron can evade some of the protection from vaccines, makes boosters an important tool to stay as safe as possible while the pandemic continues, Deville said.
If you’re age 12 and older and originally got your Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA series at least five months ago, you’re eligible to get a Pfizer booster shot, the CDC says. Right now, the Pfizer vaccine is the only one available to people below the age of 18, so adolescents don’t need to worry about the potential forModerna submitted data to the Food and Drug Administration for kids ages 12 to 17 last year.
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