won't be available anytime soon for kids younger than 5 years oldIn early tests, the lower dose given to 2- to 5-year-olds didn't produce as much immune protection as did shots given to other age groups, a Pfizer scientist said at a federal advisory committee meeting Wednesday, expanding on information provided late last year.
against omicron, with an mRNA vaccine booster offering the best protection against the fast-spreading variant. The initial two-dose vaccine regime does not produce antibodies capable of fully recognizing and neutralizing the omicron variant, the researchers found. But they noted that while omicron is better at getting past vaccine-created immunity, people who have breakthrough cases do have milder disease, potentially due to the long-term immunity created by their initial vaccination.
Mayo said the workers would lose their jobs for not meeting the company deadline, which stipulated getting one dose of a vaccine or not being overdue for a second dose. Mayo said it had granted a majority of medical and religious exemption requests, according to theLast summer, New York state imposed a mandate allowing for medical exemptions, but not those based on religious objections.
'agency was still probing how many of these pediatric hospitalizations were due to COVID-related admissions alone and how many were for young children being hospitalized for other reasons and then testing positive for COVID-19' 🙄