Pfizer says COVID-19 vaccine is safe and 100% effective in kids 12 to 15

Name: Pfizer says COVID vaccine is safe and 100% effective in kids
Uploaded: 2021-03-31T00:00:00+00:00
Duration: 4 min 25 s
Description: Pfizer says its COVID-19 vaccine is safe and 100% effective in kids between the ages of 12 to 15. The company hopes to get permission from the FDA in the coming weeks, with the goal of vaccinating kids before the start of the school year in the fall.

Briana Vannozzi, Anchor | March 31, 2021 | Coronavirus in NJ

The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was 100% effective in a study of 12- to 15-year-olds, the companies reported Wednesday. The vaccine was well tolerated in the group and the immune response was stronger than among older participants in earlier trials.

Pfizer-BioNTech will be submitting the data to the Food and Drug Administration in coming weeks, seeking emergency use authorization for a younger population. We asked Montclair State University epidemiologist Stephanie Silvera what this could mean for putting an end to the pandemic.

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Briana Vannozzi

Anchor

An Emmy award-winning journalist, Briana Vannozzi serves as the anchor for NJ Spotlight News, the newsroom of NJ PBS. She's worked in several capacities since joining the news division in 2012, as interim anchor and senior correspondent after years of general assignment reporting as a multimedia journalist. Vannozzi began her television journalism career by cutting her teeth on New Jersey State House politics for New Jersey Network News, and later as a news radio correspondent at FM News 101.9 covering crime and politics in New York City. Her work has taken her to national presidential nominating conventions, Capitol Hill, up and down the East Coast and every corner of the Garden State. She's interviewed every New Jersey governor dating back to Jon Corzine and moderated numerous political debates and forums. Her work has also earned awards from the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists and the Philadelphia Press Association. A Burlington County native, she's honored to be serving and covering her home state and raising her family there.

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