White House Outlines Covid Vaccine Plan for Children Under 5
The White House has outlined the early stages of its plan for making coronavirus vaccines available this month to roughly 18 million children younger than 5, should the doses be cleared by federal regulators for the last group of Americans yet to be eligible.
The Biden administration has made 10 million doses available to states and health providers; half were made available for order last week, the other half this week. It is offering equal numbers of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines.
Orders from states have been somewhat tepid so far, according to data that senior administration officials provided to reporters in a briefing on Wednesday evening. Of the five million doses offered last week, 58 percent of those made by Pfizer-BioNTech, have been ordered, as have roughly a third of those made by Moderna.
“If the F.D.A. and C.D.C. recommend these vaccines, this would mark an important moment in the pandemic,” Dr. Ashish Jha, President Biden’s coronavirus response coordinator, said at a White House briefing on Thursday.
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