FDA Vaccine Advisors recommend Pfizer vaccine for children 5 and 11 years old

(CNN) - Vaccine Advisors of the EE Food and Food Administration.UU.(FDA) voted in favor of recommending the authorization of emergency use of the vaccine of a third of the Pfizer dose for children from 5 to 11 years old.

The members of the Vaccine Advisory Committee and related biological products of the FDA agreed that the benefits of vaccinating the younger children seem to overcome the risks, but some members were worried about voting to vaccinate a large population of children more children moresmall from studies of a few thousand.

"It reassures me to know that we are managing a lower dose," said Dr.Paul Offit, Vaccine Expert from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.Pfizer has reduced its vaccine to a third of adult dose for children under 12 years.

"I only worry that if we say yes, the states will demand the administration of this vaccine so that the children go to school and I do not agree with that," said the DR.Cody Meissner, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Tufts School of Medicine."I think it would be a mistake at this time".

But Dra.Amanda Cohn, from the Centers for the Control and Prevention of EE diseases.UU., he reminded the committee that there are children who have died from Covid-19.According to CDC, more than 700 children under 18 have died from Covid-19."We don't want children to die from Covid," he said."And we don't want children in the ICU".

The FDA will now take into consideration the vote of the committee.Then, vaccine advisors from Centers for the control and prevention of EE diseases.UU.(CDC) will meet next week, from November 2 to 3, to discuss the decision and decide whether to recommend that US children.UU.They must be vaccinated.The last word will be the director of the CDC, the DRA.Rochelle Walensky, and vaccination could start next week if approved.

According to CDC, more than 700 children under 18 have died from Covid-19."We don't want children to die from Covid," he said."And we don't want children in the ICU".

The FDA had said that, in most of the scenarios she projected, the benefits of vaccinating younger children would overcome any risk and Pfizer said that clinical trials showed that the vaccine was more than 90% effective to prevent symptomatic infection in the children.

The Federal Government of the USA.UU.It has a plan to deliver smaller vaccines in the offices of pediatricians, pharmacies and other places throughout the country.

With Maggie Fox information