Video: Boston doctor breaks down COVID-19 vaccine trials for children between 6 months, 4 years old
Updated: 6:54 PM EST Feb 1, 2022
>> YOU ARE WATCHING WCVB NEWSCENTER 5 AT 5:30. JESSA:IC IF YOU ARE JUST JOINING US, JUST MINUTES AGO, PFIZER FORMALLY ASKING THE FDTOA AUTHORIZE ITS COVID-19 VACCINE FOR BABIES AND TODDLERS. HERE TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS IS DR. HELEN BOUCHER, THE INTERIM DEAN OF TUFTS MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INFECTIOUS DISEASE SPECIALIST AT TUFTS MEDICAL CENR.TE THANKS FOR BEING WITH US. DR. BOUCHER: NICE TO SEE YOU. N:BE WE KNOW THERE IS A COLLECTIVE SIGH OF RELIEF FROM PELEOP WHO HAVE BEEN WAITING SO LONG FOR THIS. WE KNOW YOU’RE STILL WAITING TO REVIEW THE DATA ABOUT THIS SIX-MONTH TO FOUR-YEAR-OLD AGE GROUP, BUT WHAT CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THE CLINICAL TRIALS SO R?FA WHY DOES THIS SEEM LIKE IT HAS TAKEN A LONG TIME? DR. BOUCR:HE YOU MAY RECALL THAT WE HAD DATA INITIAYLL THAT THEY WERE NOT SUCCESSFUL, SO THEY HAD TO GO BACK AND WORK ON THE DOES. THAT IS HOW THINGS WORK. THAT IS HOW IT WORKS. NOW WE HAVE TWO DOSES, THREE WEEKS APART, RECORDED FROM A PRESS RELEASE, BOTH VERY GOOD EFFICACY AND SAFETY DATA,O S THAT IS GOOD NEWS. JESSICA: WE KNOW AT THIS POINT, CHILDREN THIS YOUNG ARE MUCH SSLE LIKELY TO DEVELOP SEVERE SYMPTOMS FOR COVID. SO WHAT DO YOU SAY TO PARENTS WHO MAY ASK, DO THEY EVEN NEED A VACCINE? DR. BOUCHER: WELL, TSHI IS AN IMPORTANT QUESTION, AND UNFORTUNATELY, WHAT WE HAVE SEEN WITH OMICRONS I A RISING NUMBER OF CHILDREN GETTING SICK EOUGH TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL, AND JANUARY 22, 3.2 PERCENT OF HOSPITALIZATIONS WERE AMONG YOUNG CHILDREN. HER PARENTS, THIS IS IMPORTANT FOINRMATION, AND I THINK IT IS BETTER NOT TO GET COVID RATHER THAN TO GET COV,IDND A FOR MY CHILDREN, WE ELECTED VACCINATIONS. BEN: LET’S GET TO THESE QUESTIONFRS OM VIEWERS. THE FIRST ONE IS FROM ANITA. SHE WRESIT THIS, “MY COUSIN ASKED US TO TAKE CARE OF HER DOG WHILE SHE RECOVERS FROM COVID. IS THAT SA?FE I WANT TO HELP HER OUT, BUT I DON’T WANT MY FAMILY TO GET COVID.” ISO GUESS THE QUESTION IS, CAN THE DOG BRING COVID INTO THE HOUSE? DR. BOUCHER: IT IS NOT REALLY COMMON, AND I THINK THE KEY THING WOULD BE TO AVOID TEEXNSIVE EXPOSURE TO THEOG D IN TERMS OF LICKING YOUR FACE AND THOSE KINDS OF THINGS, BUT IT SHOULD BE SAME TO LOOK AFTER THE DOG. JESSICA: HERE IS ANOTHER ONE, THIS TIME FROM CONNOR. “THE FDA SAYS IVERMECTIN CAN’T PREVENT COVID, BUT WE’VE SNEE DOCTORS CHANGE THEIR MINDS BEFORE. IS ANY RESEARCH BEING DONE?” DR. BOUCR:HE A VERY GOOD QUESTION. IVERMECTIN IS AN ANTIPARASITIC DR, ANDUG A NUMBER OF STUDIES HAVE BEEN DONE, AND SO FAR, ALL THE STUDIES HAVE SHOWN NOBENEFITS FROM THIS DRUG, AND SOME PENTIALOT TOXICITY. REALLY WE NEED MORE STUDIES, AND I BELIEVE THERE IS AT LEAST ONE STUDY ON GOING. I WOULD NOT TAKE THIS MEDICINE OUTSIDE AOF STUDY AT THIS TIME. BEN: WE HAD NUMBERS FALL BELOW ETH 2000 CASE TODAY. WOULD YOGOU OUT ON A LIMB HERE AND SAY THAT THIS OMIONCR SURGE, IS BEHIND US? DR. BOUCR:HE WE CERTAINLY HOPE SO. LEVELS WERE QUITE HIGH. WE NEED TO WAIT A LITTLE BIT LONGER, CERTAINLY THE LIGHT AT THE ENDF O THE TUNNEL COULD HOSPITALS WILL BE BUSY FOR SOME TIME CARING FOR FOLKS WHO DELAYED CARE, SO WE ARE NOT OUT OF THE WOODS YET IN TERMOFS THE SITUATION, AND WE NEED Y
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Video: Boston doctor breaks down COVID-19 vaccine trials for children between 6 months, 4 years old
Updated: 6:54 PM EST Feb 1, 2022
Pfizer is now formally asking the FDA to authorize its COVID-19 vaccine for babies and toddlers.
Pfizer is now formally asking the FDA to authorize its COVID-19 vaccine for babies and toddlers.
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