UK Offers Low-Dose Pfizer Vaccine to 5- to 11-Year-Olds.

All children aged 5 to 11 will be offered vaccines for the CCP virus, the UK government said on Wednesday as its vaccination advisory body gave the green light. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) on Wednesday published a report advising a “non-urgent offer” of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, also know as Comirnaty, to the primary schoolers so they may be protected “against severe COVID-19 in advance of a potential future wave of COVID-19.” Although there are an estimated 5.8 million 5- to 11-year-olds in the UK, those who are clinically vulnerable or who live with someone who is immunosuppressed have previously been provided the vaccines. The only CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus vaccine licensed by the UK’s medicines regulator for the age range is a pediatric formulation of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccination will be given … Continue reading UK Offers Low-Dose Pfizer Vaccine to 5- to 11-Year-Olds.