“We are caring for young people with soaring rates of depression, anxiety, trauma, loneliness, and suicidality,” three organizations say in an emergency declaration.
After authorization by the Food and Drug Administration and sign-off by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, eligible patients can get any of the three available booster doses, regardless of which shot they got first.
It’s not a huge deal whether, say, an 11-year-old gets the 10-microgram dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine or, at age 12, gets the 30-microgram dose, one expert says.
They might indicate the presence of coronavirus antibodies in the bloodstream, but scientists don’t yet know what number of antibodies provide protection from the disease.
The risk of severe maternal morbidity — serious problems such as needing blood transfusions, hysterectomies or ventilators — are found to be steep, researchers say.