No concerning side effects found in young children who received the COVID-19 vaccine

No serious side effects were found in children aged 5 years or younger who were given mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, according to a recent study published in Pediatrics. Researchers of the study examined the patient records of approximately 550,000 children under 5 from June 2022 to March 2023 for both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines. Information regarding COVID-19 vaccine safety is limited among children in that age group. Patient records were collected from the Vaccine Safety Datalink, which consists of data provided by 8 health systems: 5 Kaiser Permanente regions, Marshfield Clinic in Wisconsin, HealthPartners in Minneapolis, and Denver Health in Colorado. Weekly surveillance monitoring, also known as rapid cycle analysis (RCA), of more than 245,000 COVID-19 mRNA vaccine doses did not detect a safety signal for any outcome in the 21 days after vaccination. Within the study’s timeframe, 135,005 doses of the Pfizer vaccine were given to children aged 6 months to 4-years-old. Children...