U.S. drugmaker Moderna on Wednesday said it plans to soon begin testing its COVID-19 vaccine in children ages 12 through 17.
Notes listed on clinicaltrials.gov said the study will include 3,000 participants — half of whom will receive the vaccine, while the other half receive a placebo — in order to “evaluate the safety” of a single-dose level of the vaccine administered to “an adolescent population.”
Both the vaccine and placebo will be administered in two doses 28 days apart.
The web page for the study said it is not yet recruiting candidates and Moderna spokeswoman Colleen Hussey told The New York Times the company was not certain when testing sites would be listed or begin accepting volunteers.
On Monday, Moderna said it would seek an emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration after further clinical trials of its vaccine on adults found it was 94% effective.
The company’s vaccine has not been tested on children or pregnant women.
Fellow drugmaker Pfizer began testing its vaccine on children as young as 12 in October and AstraZeneca has begun trials on children but solely outside of the United States.
Pfizer and BioNTech have also applied for an emergency use authorization and the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee plans to meet Dec. 10 to review the vaccine and recommend whether it should be cleared.
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I would not allow anyone to vaccinate my children in a trial. I would be too afraid of long term effects or even death.
I say, TEST IT ON EVERY SCUBAG IN Prison, and in congress… THEN ASK us to volunteer our kids.
Moderna did not use the cells of aborted babies directly, but indirectly. Please do your research on these vaccines. Whether directly or indirectly, one is still using aborted fetuses. They gradually get you used to the idea and this practice will only encourage the use of aborted babies by BIG PHARMA. This is a sinful practice to feed off of these innocent babies. Absolutely disgusting.
Oh, by the way. They excuse the vaccines because the babies were willingly aborted by the mother. So that makes it alright. Incredible!!!!
Unless you have co-morbid preexisting conditions, no one under the age of 65 should even consider getting this vaccine.
Giving it to children is nothing short of child abuse/endangerment.
Which we ALL KNOW the left is fully in favor of, especially with their abject LOVE OF padeo time reading in libraries…
Don’t know about the rest of you, but I would not allow my child to be part of an experiment, I don’t care what they tell me about all the test and safety, ALL of these vaccines FAIL the largest and most basic part of any trial, the simple passage of time, what happens 10 years down the road?
The so called trials and safety of these vaccines, are missing one very important part, time. These vaccines have not and could not have been subjected to, arguably, one of the most important part of a trial, what happens 5, 10, years from now, even longer. There are forces at work here that I can never trust, consider bill gates is a supporter of depopulation, many globalists are, get rid of the riff raff, so there is more for them. Keep in mind, this was unleashed on the world at a time when the globalist/new world order people had set for a time frame to have it finished. The “great reset” that is now being “PUBLICY TOUTED by the likes of globalist slime john kerry. What if, and I have no proof, 10 years down the road, strangely, MANY COUPLES ARE INFERTILE? What I do have proof of, I cannot trust other people to have my best interest at heart, especially people like john kerry, bill gates and ALL of the rest of the new world order folks.
Why don’t they use the parents/children of Bill Gates, Dr. Fauci, George Soros, Zuckerberg, etc. for their testing and make sure they don’t all get the placebo.