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Huge spectacle Pfizer: COVID shot effective for youngest children

- FRANCE Killing confirmed By MAY ZHOU in Houston at Qatar embassy mayzhou@chinadaily­usa.com UNITED STATES

A person has been killed at the Qatar Pfizer embassy and BioNTech in Paris announced and one Monday person has that been a third arrested dose as of part their mRNA of the investigat­ion, vaccine against said COVID-19 the Paris was prosecutor’s found to elicit office a strong on Monday, immune response confirming for earlier children media 6 months to 5 years reports. old. A source close to the

investigat­ion The company said said the that person 1,678 children killed received in the early a third hours dose of at Monday least two months was a security after the guard second and dose the at a death time when did not Omicron appear to was have the predominan­t been a terrorist variant. act. The “I can third confirm dose of the that COVID-19 an investigat­ion vaccine was was well tolerated opened today in this on age the group, count and of no new murder,” safety said signals the were prosecutor’s identified.

office, The company adding that said it that was 10 not symptomati­c yet clear if a COVID-19 weapon had cases been were used. identified “The circumstan­ces from seven days of the after death the third of the dose guard and are accrued yet to be as determined of April 29. The precisely.” vaccine efficacy was found

Subway shooting

to be 80.3 percent. leaves man dead

“Our COVID-19 vaccine has A been 48-year-old studied man in thousands was fatally of shot children in the chest and adolescent­s, while riding on and a New we are York pleased City that subway our formulatio­n car on Sunday for in the the youngest latest in children, a series of which random we carefully attacks selected in the city’s to be transit one-tenth system. of the The dose unidentifi­ed strength for gunman adults, fled was well when tolerated the train and pulled produced into the a next strong station immune in Manhattan response,” and Albert remained Bourla, at chairman large on Sunday and CEO night, of said Pfizer, said NYPD’s in a statement. chief of department Kenneth “We Corey are at preparing a news briefing. the relevant The gunman, documents described and expect only as completing a heavyset, the “dark submission skinned” process man with to the a FDA beard (Food fled and when Drug the Administra­tion) train pulled into this Canal week, Street with submission­s station. The to suspect EMA (European and the Medicines victim were Agency) not and acquainted other regulatory and had agencies not interacted to follow prior within to the the shooting, coming police weeks,” said. Ugur Sahin, CEO and co-founder of BioNTech, said in the statement.

On Monday, the FDA announced us to determine if these vaccines are that its advisory committee of external safe and effective,” the FDA said on experts will meet on June 15 to Twitter. “We are working as quickly review Moderna’s EUA (emergency as possible to carefully review all use authorizat­ion) request for 6 the data.” The agency also said that months through 5 years old and it will complete the review of both Pfizer-BioNTech’s EUA request for EUA requests within days of one 6 months through 4 years old. another.

The youngest population of 6 Although COVID-19 is normally months to 5-year-olds is the only less severe in children, hospitaliz­ations group that hasn’t been authorized of those under age 5 were to be fully vaccinated against five times higher during the Omicron COVID-19. Roughly 19 million children wave than the previous Delta fall into that age group. surge, according to the Centers for

The FDA advisory committee also Disease Control and Prevention will convene its advisory committee (CDC). of external experts on June 14 to A recent study in UK and US discuss Moderna’s EUA request for theorized that the recent surge in ages An 6-17. internatio­nally The Pfizer-BioNTech renowned vaccine interactiv­e pediatric street acute theater hepatitis spectacle cases happening called has already TheWhale been appears approved on for Majuba beach in the in a US, statement Europe, about Japan this the age environmen­t group. and climate change and Israel on Sunday might in be Redcar, a result of an

England. “We know parents are anxious for unnoticed COVID-19 infection.

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