{"id":41455,"date":"2021-10-25T17:35:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T00:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41455"},"modified":"2021-10-25T17:35:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T00:35:15","slug":"covid-19-vaccine-safe-effective-in-kids-6-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41455","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 vaccine safe, effective in kids 6-11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moderna&#8217;s COVID-19 vaccine generated a strong immune response in children and was generally well tolerated, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/lnnqsfzphmmrlflmrdjhhrqqhzrcmzmyynhpfwcmgkdgmg_ybmskkqlqnsgqksvvbql.html?a=&amp;b=43677\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/lnnqsfzphmmrlflmrdjhhrqqhzrcmzmyynhpfwcmgkdgmg_ybmskkqlqnsgqksvvbql.html?a%3D%26b%3D43677&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1635286223499000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGWtFaFIH6eaHNF3d-xOGgHDtb1mw\">company announced<\/a>\u00a0Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In its study, Moderna determined that children aged 6 to 11 years old, who were vaccinated with two 50 microgram doses, had 1.5 times higher antibody levels than those observed among vaccinated young adults.<\/p>\n<p>The dosage used for the children is half of the 100 micrograms used for the initial two adult shots, but the same amount authorized for the booster shot.<\/p>\n<p>With the vaccine, these children showed a &#8220;robust neutralizing antibody response&#8221; and a &#8220;favorable safety profile&#8221; consistent with adolescent and adult response, the company noted.<\/p>\n<p>Most adverse events were considered mild or moderate, with the most prevalent symptoms being fatigue, headache, fever and injection site pain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s next:\u00a0<\/strong>The company said it plans to submit data to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other regulators, including in Europe, \u201cin the near term.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes a day before an FDA advisory panel is scheduled to discuss data on Pfizer-BioNTech&#8217;s COVID-19 vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moderna&#8217;s COVID-19 vaccine generated a strong&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41456,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41455\/revisions\/41456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}