The shots will become available next week, expanding the nation’s vaccination campaign to children as young as 6 months.
It remains unclear how many parents will get their young ones vaccinated as demand has been low for kids aged 5 to 11.
The infant food company, Abbott, said it will take about three weeks before the new formula from the plant begins getting to consumers.
Pharmacies and supermarkets have been running short of infant food supplies, a shortage further exacerbated by Abbott shuttering its largest US formula manufacturing plant over contamination concerns.
Through InspectIR Covid-19 Breathalyzer, the test "can be performed in environments where the patient specimen is both collected and analysed, using an instrument about the size of a piece of carry-on luggage, US drug agency says.
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Food and Drug Administration is expected to give its formal green light soon, making 28 million young Americans eligible for the shot by mid-November.
Even if the FDA is successful, the ban is likely to take years to implement amid possible legal challenges from the tobacco industry, which has targeted Black Americans in its menthol marketing.
Health officials conducting a trial involving 32,000 volunteers found the Covid-19 vaccine by Oxford University and AstraZeneca has 79 percent efficacy in preventing symptomatic illness with no increased risk of blood clots.
The US Food and Drug Administration’s scientists confirm that overall the vaccine has 66 percent efficacy in preventing moderate illness from the virus.
Gerber, Happy Baby, Earth’s Best and others were aware of toxic heavy metals in baby food, US House Oversight report says, urging regulators to set maximum levels of toxic metals permitted and make testing finished products mandatory.
The development of Covid-19 vaccines in record time will not be enough to fix big pharma’s tarnished image.
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