CDC and FDA clear the way for COVID vaccines for kids under 5

Some 20 million babies, toddlers, and preschoolers are now eligible to be vaccinated for COVID-19, after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky signed off on unanimous votes from her agency’s outside vaccine advisers to recommend shots from Moderna as well as Pfizer and BioNTech for children as young as six months old.