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Pfizer's COVID vaccine 73.2% effective in kids under 5-- new data

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Tue, 2022-08-23 09:58 — mike kraft
Pfizer's COVID vaccine 73.2% effective in kids under 5, new data shows Pfizer Inc and BioNTech's vaccine was 73.2% effective in preventing COVID-19 among children aged 6 months through 4 years, new data from the companies showed on Tuesday, two months after the U.S. rollout of the shots began for that age group. Reuters Reuters

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An early analysis based on 10 symptomatic COVID-19 cases in the study had suggested a vaccine efficacy of 80.3%. But experts had warned that the data was preliminary due to a low number of symptomatic cases.

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