Adolescents In COVID-19 Vaccine Trials: As Pfizer Starts Dosing, US FDA Encouraging Other Sponsors

 
• By Brenda Sandburg

But advisory committee members caution against including pediatric population in COVID-19 vaccine trials, and one member expresses concern that Pfizer is testing those as young as 12 years of age. Agency is in discussions with product sponsors about enrollment of adolescents.

adolescent with mask vaccinated (source: iStock / Getty Images Plus)
FDA advisory committee discusses when COVID-19 vaccines should be tested in adolescents • Source: iStock/Getty Images Plus

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