Are children getting the Delta variant? The number of Covid-19 cases in children has steadily increased since the beginning of July, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
After declining in early summer, child cases have seen a fourfold increase over the past month, rising from about 38,000 cases the week ended July 22 to 180,000 the past week, according to the AAP. Now that the Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine received full approval from the FDA, can I get my child under 12 vaccinated? The vaccine is now eligible for off-label prescriptions—or use beyond the approved populations.
That could include booster doses, according to the Food and Drug Administration, but prescribing the vaccine off label for children wouldn’t be