The European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Wednesday approved the use of the original Pfizer (Comirnaty) and Moderna (Spikevax) vaccines to protect children aged six months to five years from COVID-19, albeit at lower doses than those recommended for other adults. or children.
The Committee for Medicines for Human Use (CHMP) has considered the vaccines safe and effective for use also in children aged six months to four years if pfizer and six months to five years modernas these vaccines are already approved in the European Union (EU) for both adults and children over five and six years of age respectively.
smaller doses
The doses of both drugs in the age groups included today will be lower. pfizer it will be given as a primary vaccination in three doses of three micrograms each, with the first two doses three weeks apart and the third no later than eight weeks after the second.
Bye modern it will be given in two doses of 25 micrograms each four weeks apart.
The most common side effects of both vaccines in children aged six months to four or five years were comparable to those seen in older age groups and included irritability, drowsiness, loss of appetite and soreness at the injection site, which are usually improved somewhat. days after vaccination.
EMA He will now send his scientific opinions to the European Commission, which will make the final decision on the renewal of the license for use for these new age groups.
(As reported by EFE)
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