What you need to know about Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine now approved for kids under 5
for kids under five on Thursday, making infants, toddlers and preschoolers eligible for vaccination for the first time.An Ontario government spokesperson told CP24 that the province expects to receive the Moderna vaccine for kids under five “late” in the week of July 18-22, with administration beginning soon after.
It’s smaller than the 25 microgram Pfizer pediatric dose given to 5-11 year-olds and 50 microgram Moderna dose approved for older children. In fact, Public Health Ontario’s tracking of hospitalizations due to COVID-19 finds that during the length of the pandemic, kids up to four years-old have been hospitalized atthe rate of children aged 5-11 and 12 to 19, with a particularly wide disparity after the arrival of the Omicron variant.
She said giving the daycare and preschool and even some junior kindergarteners vaccines against COVID-19 will lower the incidence of transmission and severe outcomes when the summer ends.
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