Coronavirus: Hong Kong may dilute adult vaccines for babies as young as 6 months in world’s first, if formula unobtainable


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Hong Kong will seek to procure the specific formula for a Covid-19 vaccine for toddlers, or dilute the adult version if the city is unable to obtain the drug maker’s composition, health experts have said. They made the call on Tuesday to extend vaccination to younger residents after two scientific committees under the Department of Health recommended a day before that the local vaccination age should be lowered to children aged six months . The Scientific Committee on Vaccine Preventable Diseases and the Scientific Committee on Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases suggested that each paediatric dosage should be one-tenth of the...