By Tom Rosenthal
The CDC’s director, Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, adopted the agency’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ (ACIP) unanimous recommendation to expand administration of the two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to adolescents 12 to 15 years of age.
Dr. Walensky acted shortly after the ACIP’s 14-to-0 vote to recommend the vaccine for this age group following an earlier decision by the FDA to expand its emergency use authorization (EUA) for the