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♪ oh what a wonderful world ♪ pfizer's released new data showing its covid vaccine is 90.7% effective against symptomatic covid in children

The Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine showed 90.7% efficacy against the coronavirus in a clinical trial of five to 11-year-olds, the U.S. drugmaker said on Friday.Sixteen children in the trial who had received a placebo got COVID-19, compared with 3 who were vaccinated, Pfizer said in briefing documents submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug...

How did panera come up with the idea to combine their famous mac and cheese with their iconic grilled cheese? by saying yes. yes to new inventions! yes to clean and fresh ingredients! and yes to living life to the flavor-fullest. panera. live your yes. now $1 delivery. we may be one step closer to getting younger children vaccinated against covid. the fda is meeting next week to consider vaccines for kids ages 5 to 11 years old. this morning they just posted the data from pfizer that they will be reviewing. pfizer reporting that its vaccine is 90.7% effective

Against symptomatic covid infection for kids in that age group. it comes as the cdc expands its booster program for adults to include now all three vaccines in the u.s. joining me now is cnn medical analyst dr. leana wen, the former health commissioner for the city of baltimore. 90.7% effective against symptomatic covid, dr. wen. what do you think of this data, and how does it compare to the vaccine's effectiveness in other age groups? >> this is good, kate. so i am reassured that there will at least be some real life effectiveness of this data ahead of the meeting next week. priestly pfizer s...

Booster. if you had the johnson & johnson product, you should get a booster. there are other segments of folks that as we learn more that will benefit from boosting. but we have to actually vaccinate the unvaccinated. >> in terms of getting some unvaccinated vaccinated, part of that could change, right, when we hopefully approve or see authorization, i should say, for the vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds. new data from pfizer, they're saying the vaccine is 90.7% effective against symptomatic covid in kid ages 5 to 11. what should we make of that number? it sound good to me, a lot better than a f...