Lawmakers on Wednesday called on the Department of Health not to roll out the US-made Pfizer BionTech COVID-19 vaccines to children even though the Food and Drug Administration has allowed it for em
ergency use on minors 12 to 15 years old.
“I hope that even though it has been issued emergency use authorization, we would not yet roll out this to children because they are not affected unlike the elderly,” Pineda said during the House Committee on Good Government hearing. The government then stopped the school-based dengue immunization program after more than 100 parents blamed government officials responsible for the deaths of children who were administered with Dengvaxia.
Duque said the Philippine Pediatrics Society and the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society of the Philippines have vowed to study the inoculation of children younger than 12 years old.
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