https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/16/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/
Moderna coronavirus vaccine trial begins in children as young as six months old
Biotechnology company Moderna announced Tuesday that the first children received shots in a trial that will test its coronavirus vaccine on minors ranging in age from 6 months to 12 years old.
The trial, which will include 6,750 children, will start with older children. Researchers will first determine the safety and correct dose of the vaccine in children from age 6 to 12 years old, then step down gradually to the youngest participants. Once the correct dose is determined in each age group, a second phase of the trial will test the vaccine against a placebo, to assess whether it is safe and triggers an immune response.
Unlike the large Phase 3 trials in adults that took months to complete as researchers waited to see if the vaccine protected participants from becoming ill, the children’s study will assess markers in the blood that show a protective immune response has been triggered. The company is seeking volunteers for its study, and more information is available here.
Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech both have ongoing trials in adolescents as young as 12 years old that are expected to report results soon. In documents submitted to the Food and Drug Administration, Johnson & Johnson announced plans to test its vaccine in two trials, one in children aged 12 to 18 years and from birth to 18 years old, but a spokesman did not offer any specifics about the timeline to start those tests. AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford last month launched a trial in Britain, testing that vaccine in children as young as 6 years old.
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