The Illinois Department of Public Health is preparing to make Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines available to those age 6 months to 4 years of age. Warren County Health Department Administrator Jenna Link says the anticipated authorized vaccine use would be a two-dose series:
“Pfizer submitted their data on their doses for the 6 months to 5 years old. They anticipate that shortly that will be authorized and be used for that age group. It will be a series of two doses just like the others. Obviously, it is going to be a smaller dose, even than what we do with the pediatrics from the 5 to 12 year olds. They are younger, smaller and they don’t need the same amount of a dose as the others.”
Children from 6 months to 4 years of age would receive a tenth of the dose as a series of two doses three weeks apart for the anticipated authorization of the Pfizer vaccine.
**Written by WMOI/WRAM Director of Communications Kelsey Crain**
