{"id":47292,"date":"2022-04-14T09:39:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T16:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47292"},"modified":"2022-04-15T09:39:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T16:39:38","slug":"pfizer-kids-booster-gives-high-immune-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47292","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer: Kids&#8217; booster gives \u2018high\u2019 immune response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pfizer and BioNTech said Thursday that a third dose of their COVID-19 vaccine in children ages 5-11 produced a \u201chigh\u201d immune response, and that they will apply for authorization for a booster dose in the age group soon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer said in a news release that a third dose of the vaccine in those 5-11 produced a 36-fold increase in levels of neutralizing antibodies against the omicron variant, compared to two doses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Antibody levels against the original version of the virus increased by six-fold.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese data reinforce the potential function of a third dose of the vaccine in maintaining high levels of protection against the virus in this age group,\u201d Pfizer said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The company plans to submit a request to the Food and Drug Administration for authorization for a booster dose in children 5-11 \u201cin the coming days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>News of a possible booster for children 5-11 comes as there are still no doses at all authorized for children under five, though Pfizer has previously said it expects results in April from trials for that age group.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The booster dose for children 5-11 \u201cwas well tolerated with no new safety signals observed,\u201d Pfizer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pfizer and BioNTech said Thursday that&#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-47292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47292","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=47292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47293,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47292\/revisions\/47293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}