Moderna Doubles Kids Vaccine Trial Group After FDA Request
(Bloomberg) -- Moderna Inc. plans to double enrollment in a trial of its Covid vaccine in children under age 12, following a request from U.S. regulators to collect additional safety data.
Moderna’s study will enroll an estimated 13,275 participants ages 6 months up to 12 years old, according to a listing on the clinicaltrials.gov website. In a post from late July, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company said it would seek to enroll about 7,000.
A surge in Covid-19 infections among children driven by the delta variant has raised increasing concerns as the fall resumption of school looms. Moderna said last month that it would expand the trial at the request of U.S. regulators, who were seeking additional data amid worries that messenger RNA shots may trigger rare heart side effects. Pfizer Inc. and its partner BioNTech SE have also said they intend to expand the size of their under-12 study.
Moderna spokesman Ray Jordan confirmed that the new enrollment estimate reflects the company’s effort to expand the trial in young children following discussions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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