With the Food and Drug Administration poised to approve two vaccines for children between six months and five years old, there are questions about which vaccines parents should choose for their kids.
One vaccine requires more doses but is more effective, while the other requires fewer doses but might not be as effective.
“Both vaccines are safe and effective,” said Virginia Bieluch, MD, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at The Hospital of Central Connecticut and MidState Medical Center. “It can be difficult to compare vaccines as they are studied at different times in the pandemic, with different variants and rates of infection in the communities studied. Also, the definition of effectiveness used in studies can be different. Both vaccines elicit strong immune responses. Parents should have their child vaccinated with whatever vaccine is available.”
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