Pfizer gets green light for first Covid-19 vaccine trials for children
Pfizer's Covid-19 trials are well under way.
Now, the Chesterfield-based drug company is planning to start testing its experimental coronavirus vaccine on children as young as 12.
"I think it's a very necessary step. I'm glad to see that," said Dr. Rachel Charney.
Charney is a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Cardinal Glennon Chil dren's Hospital.
"We want to know if it is effective and equally safe in our younger population and so that's when we start introducing pediatric trials," Charney…
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