Nearly 1,700 parents and doctors across the country have filed a Citizen Petition calling on the FDA to approve a COVID vaccine for kids under 5. The petition comes on the same day the FDA announced the approval of the antiviral drug remdesivir to treat COVID patients as young as 28 days and weighing about 7 pounds.
"We need the FDA to get vaccines to our children — that's really what we need right now," Khan said. "We need them to prioritize children."
On Monday, she and nearly 1,700 parents and doctors across the country filed a Citizen Petition calling on the FDA to approve the COVID vaccine for kids under 5. "This petition is asking the FDA to do an immediate review of Moderna's data as soon as it's submitted," Khan said. "Right now, the FDA is signaling that they might drag their feet for a few weeks so that Pfizer can catch up. And that to us does not seem moral or scientific or the right thing to do."
The petition comes on the same day the FDA announced the approval of the antiviral drug remdesivir to treat patients as young as 28 days and weighing about 7 pounds. So many parents across the country don't understand why the drug is approved for that young age group when the vaccine isn't approved yet.
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