US: approve booster vaccinations for adolescents

Food and Drug Quality Office (FDA) The United States at the beginning of 2022 is going to approve the use of booster vaccinations from coronavirus for adolescents aged 12 to 15 years. This is reported to the New York Times newspaper with reference to the sources.

According to the publication, the regulator is going to accept the appropriate decision next week, January 3. In addition, doctors intend to allow the use of a booster dose of a vaccine for children from 5 to 11 years old with a weakened immune system.

US Disease Control and Prevention Centers reported that in the country from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, about 1.8 million cases of coronavirus infection in the age category from 12 to 15 years have been revealed, 246 adolescents of this age died of the consequences of the disease.

Previously, CNN TV channel with reference to the University of Jones Hopkins reported that in the US recorded maximum daily rates of proliferation of coronavirus infection for all time from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. December 28 in the country recorded 254,496 new cases of infection.

/Media reports.