Pfizer asks FDA to clear updated COVID shot for kids under 5

Pfizer and its partner BioNTech said Monday that may help prevent severe illness and hospitalization from COVID-19 in little kids, at a time when children’s hospitals already are packed with youngsters hit by other respiratory illnesses.

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US renews push for COVID boosters as data shows they protect

Only about 13% of U.S. adults so far have gotten a “bivalent” shot that targets the Omicron strain as well as the original coronavirus.

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US expected to extend COVID-19 public health emergency