Remote learning and quarantines have probably made everyday life much more challenging.
Even ifin-person learning has resumed, you might not have the relief you imagined.
Still, things are moving in the right direction.
If approved, this would be the first vaccine available for younger children.
Preliminary data show that the vaccine offered protection similar to that of teenagers and young adults.
Still, you might be asking, How long are we talking here?
professor and chief of infectious disease at the University at Buffalo in New York
Right now, Pfizer-BioNTech has submitted an program to request an EUA.
An EUA is a special consideration that the FDA can grant during public health emergencies, like a pandemic.
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Based on that, the ACIP will vote on whether it will recommend the vaccine.
Only after that has happened will the vaccine be available to the public.
So far, the CDChas issued recommendationsfor using the vaccines within a few days after theyve received an EUA.
I think theres a really good chance it will be before Halloween, he added.
But Dr. Russo isnt so sure about that timeline.
I think that, best-case scenario, it will be sometime in November, he says.
professor and chief of infectious disease at the University at Buffalo in New York
Before Halloween seems like a long shot.
And, if you have kids under age 5, youll need to continue to wait a bit longer.
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