Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former Director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Food and Drug Administration) Now serves as Pfizer Board members said on Sunday that families can safely gather during the Thanksgiving holiday and that some vaccinated children can be close to their vaccinated grandparents, depending on the local case rate in their community.
“I think it’s safe now. Look, we now have tools to protect the environment. I don’t think there is any reason why people can gather together for the holidays. They need to look at the local epidemic and what the risks are in their communities,” Gotley Bu said CBS‘ Face the country.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for children 5 to 11 years old before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month (CDC) The decision was approved on Tuesday. In the past week, the United States began to vaccinate people of different age groups.
Approximately 29 million children are now eligible for the second vaccine, which is one-third of the adult dose and needs to be vaccinated three weeks apart.
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According to health officials, anyone who receives the second dose of vaccine two weeks later falls into the fully vaccinated category, which means that children will not be considered fully immunized until Thanksgiving.
Nevertheless, only the first dose can provide significant virus protection.
As more and more young children are vaccinated, Gottlieb predicts that a kind of “broad immunity” will develop in the age population.
“The absorption of vaccines from 5 to 11 is very active, and I suspect that the absorption will be better than that of 12 to 17. Some people estimate that the absorption will be less than 12 to 17. I think it may be the opposite,” he said. “Now, CVS plans to provide more than 1 million vaccines to children between 5 and 11 years old today, so I think you will see a broad spectrum of immunity being included in the children’s population.”
Following the surge of highly infectious Delta variants in the summer, the number of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths across the United States has steadily declined
President Joe Biden A comprehensive mission has recently been advanced, requiring millions of employees of private companies to be fully vaccinated by early 2022.
Gottlieb believes that the order may end the pandemic and turn it into an “endemic disease” early next year.
“By January 4th, this pandemic is likely to end, at least because it is related to the United States, after we have passed the triangle wave of infections. And we will be more in the epidemic phase of this virus,” he Say.
Weekly newspaper Contacted the CDC for comments.
