Americans as young 12 begin to get vaccinated against Covid-19 after FDA s authorization By: CNN
By Madeline Holcombe, Eric Levenson and Nick Valencia, CNN
(CNN) Some vaccine sites began to inoculate 12-to-15-year-olds against Covid-19 on Tuesday morning, a day after the US Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer s vaccine for the age group.
Jacob Laney, 14, was in line at a Decatur, Georgia, vaccine site early Tuesday in hopes of getting the vaccine. My friend got Covid and it looked really bad, and I just did not want to get it, he told CNN. Once he gets both doses of Pfizer s two-dose vaccine, I think I ll be less scared of getting it and less scared of having issues with Covid-19, he said.
WHO classifies Covid-19 variant first identified in India as a variant of concern
From CNN’s Virginia Langmaid
The World Health Organization has classified the B.1.617 Covid-19 variant, which was first identified in India, as a variant of concern, the WHO’s technical lead for Covid-19 said during a news briefing on Monday.
A “variant of concern” label indicates that the identified variant may show, among other indicators, evidence of increased transmissibility or evidence of increased severity.
“There is some available information to suggest increased transmissibility of B.1.617,” said Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO Covid-19 technical lead.
Quantifying the risk posed by the variant will require real-world data in addition to greater genomic surveillance, WHO officials said.