Vaccine for Kids Could Come Before Halloween

The Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine “has been shown to be safe and highly effective in young children aged 5 to 11 years,” the New York Times reports.

“Children now account for more than one in five new cases, and the highly contagious Delta variant has sent more children into hospitals and intensive care units in the past few weeks than at any other time in the pandemic… If the regulatory review goes as smoothly as it did for older children and adults, millions of elementary school students could be inoculated before Halloween.”