Officials: Millions Of Orders Placed For COVID Vaccines For Youngest

White House officials say pharmacies and states have ordered 1.45 million Pfizer doses and about 850,000 Moderna shots.

Millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses have been ordered for small children in anticipation of possible federal authorization next week, White House officials say.

The government allowed pharmacies and states to start placing orders last week, with 5 million doses initially available — half of them shots made by Pfizer and the other half the vaccine produced by Moderna, senior administration officials said.

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