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FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Still Reviewing New Data

FDA Delays Advisory Meeting for COVID-19 Vaccine for Very Young Kids

By Marie Rosenthal

The FDA postponed the Feb. 15 meeting of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee that was scheduled to discuss the authorization of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for children 6 months through 4 years of age.

According to Peter Marks, MD, PhD, the director of the FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, the delay was requested by Pfizer-BioNTech, after the agency—which originally thought it could move forward with authorization of a