European regulator approves Pfizer vaccine for children aged 5 to 11

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Thursday approved Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine for children between 5 and 11 years old, a decision that will help accelerate the fight against the virus at a time when the pandemic is intensifying in Europe.
The EMA said an expert panel “recommended expanding the indication for the Comirnaty vaccine to include children between the ages of 5 and 11,” the agency said, using the immunizer’s trade name.
This messenger RNA (ribonucleic acid) vaccine has already been authorized to be inoculated from the age of 12 in the 27 countries of the European Union (EU).

Outside Europe, this Pfizer immunizer has already been approved for children between the ages of 5 and 11 in a few countries, such as the United States, Israel and Canada.
Children in this age group will receive a third of the dose given to the elderly, in two inoculations with three weeks between one and the other, explained the European regulator.
This vaccine has shown 90.7% efficacy in a test conducted on a sample of 2,000 children between these ages, he added.

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Side effects were classified as “mild to moderate”. They may last for a few days and manifest as localized pain at the site of inoculation, fatigue, headache and/or muscle pain or a cold.
Accordingly, the EMA “concluded that the benefits of Comirnaty in children aged 5 to 11 years outweigh the risks, particularly among those who exhibit comorbidities that may increase the risk of contracting a severe form of COVID-19,” according to the statement.
Currently, the EMA has licensed four vaccines for the general population: those of Pfizer and Moderna, of messenger RNA, and those of AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson, which use the technique of the “non-replicating viral vector”, based on adenovirus.
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