in March that around 4 in10 parents of children ages 5 to 11 probably would not have their kids vaccinated.
However, the announcement also comes as concerns are mounting among some health experts and officials of a new wave of cases in the coming months driven of Omicron. The nationwide pace of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations has begun to accelerate in recent weeks, with the largest upticks in the Northeast regions, where the subvariant first became dominant.
"All that stuff you hear about, don't worry about kids, let them get infected, is a bunch of nonsense. There have been about 12 million cases in kids, there have been over 120,000 hospitalizations," Dr. Anthony Fauci said Monday,"We really need to put that myth to sleep that we don't need to protect the children now," Fauci added. The release does not include widely-anticipated data on the immune response in children under 5.
"We at FDA really understand the urgency that people feel about wanting to get the youngest children vaccinated. We also understand that this is the age range when people are most concerned about potential side effects and the potential safety of vaccines," Dr. Peter Marks, the FDA's top vaccines official, told reportersData on three doses in children under 5 is expected in the"coming weeks," according to a Pfizer spokesperson.
"FDA has a lot of familiarity with these data sets and so they could act quickly on them. Assuming the data comes out in April, as is expected, I think the agency could potentially act in May," former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb, who sits on Pfizer's board of directors, told"Face the Nation"
strange trend. The more people are vaccinated, the higher the risk of getting sick from new viruses.