Pfizer has begun testing its coronavirus vaccine in children under the age of 12, following an announcement from Moderna earlier in the month that it was doing the same. On Wednesday, the pharmaceutical company began testing its Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on young children by administering shots to nine-year-old twins at Duke University in North Carolina. AstraZeneca, whose COVID-19 vaccine is not yet authorised in the US, has started testing its treatment in children aged between 6 and 17 years old. Both Pfizer and Moderna are already testing their vaccines on children over the age of 12 and expect to have the results of those tests in the next few weeks. Sharon Castillo, a spokeswoman for Pfizer, told theTimes that the company initially planned to wait until it had results from older children before starting trials with children under 12 years of age.

Source: The Nation March 27, 2021 17:48 UTC