US advises booster for kids aged 5-11

An advisory panel to the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) voted to recommend a booster dose of the Pfizer vaccine for children aged five to 11. Pfizer's booster was cleared, allowing the use of a third shot at least five months after children receive their second.

Though kids generally do not get as sick from Covid-19 as adults, about 90 per cent of the 95 deaths among US children aged five to 11 since shots became available were among the unvaccinated, said the US CDC.