Washington, March 1 (BUS) – US health officials reported Tuesday that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine has provided strong protection for children 5 years of age and older against hospitalization and death even during the Omicron wave that has hit particularly young people.
The new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention comes a day after a study of children in New York suggested the vaccine may not be as effective in children ages 5 to 11 as it is in older children — especially at preventing mild infections. .
This data raised the question of whether small-volume doses for children younger than 12 might be too low, the AP reports.
But the CDC said data from several other states suggest the problem isn’t the children’s ages or dose size — it’s the omicron.
Vaccination is generally less effective against a highly contagious variant of Omicron than earlier versions of the coronavirus – vaccinations for children aged 5-11 began just weeks before Omicron went into circulation.
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