The Food and Drug Administration could drop the minimum age for Pfizer's COVID vaccinations from 16 down to 12 as soon as next week. That emergency use authorization would mean parents could take their children to any vaccination site to get them the vaccine before the start of the next school year.
Pfizer says its COVID-19 vaccine works 100 percent in kids as young as 12. And they only have similar side effects to what adults seem to get.
On today's Ask The Expert, Dr. Donna Persaud, a pediatrician at Parkland and Medical Director of Parkland's HOMES program joined KRLD's Kristin Diaz and David Rancken to discuss the importance of this next chapter in the fight against coronavirus.
Each day on the KRLD Afternoon news, we ask the experts what you want to know. If you have any topic suggestions or questions, send them to us at Questions@KRLD.com. Hear the answers at 4:40 p.m.
