FDA Sets June Dates for Meeting on Kids’ Vaccine

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released tentative June dates for its advisory committee to meet to discuss authorizing COVID-19 vaccines for young children, offering a rough timeline for when authorization could come. The agency said it is setting aside June 8, 21 and 22 for meetings of its advisory committee for vaccines for children under 5 and will provide more details once applications from Pfizer and Moderna are complete. That timetable suggests that if all goes according to plan, authorizations for the vaccine for children under 5 could come in June.