The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued final authorization on Tuesday, Nov. 2, to allow children from ages 5 to 11 to receive COVID-19 vaccinations.
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky endorsed the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ (ACIP) recommendation children be vaccinated against COVID-19 with the Pfizer-BioNTech pediatric vaccine. CDC now expands vaccine recommendations to about 28 million children in the United States in this age group and allows providers to begin…


