Day: October 24, 2021

F.D.A. Says Pfizer Vaccine’s Advantages Outweigh Key Dangers in Kids 5 to 11

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators evaluated for the primary time on Friday the protection and efficacy of a coronavirus vaccine for children 5 to 11, saying that the advantages of staving off Covid-19 with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine typically outweighed the dangers of essentially the most worrisome doable unintended effects in that age group. The evaluation got