Biden says schools 'should probably all be open' in fall
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President Biden said Friday that schools should “probably all be open” this fall “based on science and the CDC.”
The U.S. is trialing COVID-19 vaccines in children, but only the Pfizer-BioNTech two-dose jab is approved for people 16 and older. Moderna's and Johnson & Johnson’s vaccines received emergency use authorization for people 18 and older. Pfizer last month announced that a Phase 3 trial involving its coronavirus vaccine in adolescents 12 to 15 was found to be safe and 100% effective, but it’s not clear when the FDA would act to expand the EUA. The company is also testing the vaccine in children ages 6 months to 11 years old. Moderna has also begun testing in kids ages 12 to 17 and said they could expect to see approval for this age group by the fall. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House’s chief medical adviser, has warned that younger kids likely won’t see a vaccine until 2022, but he also recently said children can return to in-person learning "without necessarily having everyone vaccinated, all the teachers all the students."More Related News