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Moderna on Thursday became the first Covid-19 vaccine manufacturer to ask the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve its jab for children under 6, less than six months after the agency delayed approval for adolescents as young as 12-years-old over the risk of dangerous heart inflammation in younger patients.

The development comes after the company announced positive results in late March for a phase 2/3 study for children aged 6 months to under 6 years - which found that the vaccine had "lower efficacy" against the Omicron strain.

"Using the Phase 3 COVE study COVID-19 definition, vaccine efficacy in children 6 months to 2 years was 43.7% and vaccine efficacy was 37.5% in the 2 to under 6 years age group."

Moderna's chief medical officer, Dr. Paul Burton, said that the Omicron variant accounted for 80% of cases in the study group, which explains the low efficacy rate.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/moder...en-under-6