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COVID-19: Pfizer Will Seek Vaccine Rollout For Younger Teens After Encouraging Trial Results COVID-19: Pfizer Will Seek Vaccine Rollout For Younger Teens After Encouraging Trial Results
Covid-19: Pfizer Will Seek Vaccine Rollout For Younger Teens After Encouraging Trial Results Clinical trials of the Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine showed that it has a 100 percent efficacy in adolescents and is well-tolerated in minors between the ages of 12 and 15, paving the way for distribution, the companies announced. Officials said that initial trials were fruitful, and they plan to submit the data to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for expanded emergency use authorization of the two-dose vaccine in adolescents. According to Pfizer, the third phase of the clinical trial included 2,260 participants between the ages of 12 and 15, which found that strong antibody respo…

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