Wed Sep 1, 2021 – 7:44 pm EDT
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OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — All vaccine manufacturers approved in Canada are testing coronavirus vaccines on children between the ages of six months and 11 years with hopes for approval by 2022, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) said Monday in a statement.
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) told CTVNews that the data from clinical trials on children should be received “in the coming months.”
As reported by The Children’s Health Defense, Pfizer and Moderna have been running clinical vaccine trials on children under 12 since March. Both companies expect to have the results this month, with the first batch of data coming from experimental testing carried out on children ages 5 and 11, and then later data from testing on children as young as six months old.
Pfizer has previously stated that they hope to start vaccinating young children by “early 2022.”
Dr. Iris Gorfinkel, a Toronto physician and clinical researcher, told CTVNews, “When Pfizer’s vaccine data becomes available in the fall — and it looks good that for the five-to -11-year-old age group, they’ll make their announcement probably in September, and then for the younger kids, hopefully we’ll see the data by November.”
Dr. Caroline Quach, chair of Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization, told CTVNews that she agrees
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