Pfizer Says Its Covid-19 Vaccine Is 100% Effective In Young Teens

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Wednesday that their jointly-developed Covid-19 vaccine is 100% effective at preventing illness in teenagers aged 12 to 15, a major step towards expanding vaccine access as schools begin to return with most products on the market only being licensed for use in late teens and adults. ... [+]In a small trial of 2,260 volunteers, which has not been peer reviewed, preliminary data showed that there were no cases of Covid-19 in the group of teens receiving the vaccine, Pfizer said in a statement.

Pfizer said the vaccinated teens tolerated the shot well and displayed “robust antibody responses” that exceeded those recorded in trials featuring people in the 16-25 age bracket. Side effects were consistent with those aged 16 to 25, Pfizer said, which include injection site pain, fever, fatigue and chills.

The companies said they plan to apply for an expanded emergency use authorization in Europe and the U.S. for use in children twelve and up in the coming weeks. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said the timeline comes with a hope of “starting to vaccinate this age group before the start of the next school year.”testing its vaccine on younger children between the ages of six months and 11 years, where it is also testing different doses of the shot . BioNTech chief Ugur Sahin said the initial results suggest “children are particularly well protected by vaccination,” an encouraging finding given recent trends “regarding the spread of the B.1.1.7 U.K. variant.

 

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good news! but it’s important that they don’t get carried away with being irresponsable just for having the vaccine

So stupid, 100% anything in the medical field is almost always a lie

Yes please

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If they have enough brains to get the shot?

Pfizer says a lot of BS.

But they said covid has minimum effects on young kids. So why would teenagers, toddlers, babies need the vaccine?

Good news!

..... in spaying them?

Great News! People that already have 100% effective immune system against covid will have now 200% effectiveness thanks to the lord Pfizer vaccine.

Don’t take it

What happens If you caught covid? Do u need the vaccine?

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