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		</div><p>The European Medicines Agency has recommended authorising Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine for children ages 12 to 17, the first time the shot has been authorised for people under 18.</p>
<p>The EU drug regulator said research in more than 3,700 children aged 12 to 17 showed that the Moderna vaccine — already given the OK for adults across Europe — produced a comparable antibody response.</p>
<p>Until now, the vaccine made by Pfizer and German partner BioNTech has been the only option for children as young as 12 in North America and Europe.</p>
<p>The US Food and Drug Administration is currently considering whether to extend the use of the Moderna vaccine to the same age group.</p>
<p>With global vaccine supplies still tight, much of the world is struggling to immunise adults.</p>
<p>The World Health Organisation and other agencies have urged rich countries to donate their doses to the developing world — where fewer than 2% of people have been vaccinated — rather than moving on to inoculate their less vulnerable populations.</p>
<p>Hundreds of millions of Moderna doses already have been administered to adults, and the company says the two-dose vaccine is just as protective for adolescents.</p>
<p>In a study of more than 3,700 12- to 17-year-olds, the vaccine triggered the same signs of immune protection, and no Covid-19 diagnoses arose in the vaccinated group compared with four cases among those given dummy shots.</p>
<p>Sore arms, headache and fatigue were the most common side effects in the young vaccine recipients, the same ones as for adults.</p>
<p>US and European regulators caution, however, that both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines appear linked to an extremely rare reaction in teens and young adults — chest pain and heart inflammation.</p>
<p>Both Pfizer and Moderna have begun testing in even younger children, from age 11 down to six months old. These studies are more complex: teens receive the same dose as adults, but researchers are testing smaller doses in younger children.</p>
<p>The EU drug regulator said it would continue to monitor the safety and efficacy of the Moderna vaccine in children as it is used in European member countries.</p>
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