The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday said children from 12 to 17 years old should get a COVID-19 vaccine booster, despite scant effectiveness data and concerns about post-vaccination heart inflammation. The agency endorsed recommendations from its vaccine advisory panel, which voted 13–1 to advise the CDC to say children in the age group “should” get a booster of Pfizer’s vaccine five months after their primary series. The panel could have advised children “may” get a booster. “We now recommend that all adolescents aged 12–17 years should receive a booster shot 5 months after their primary series. This booster dose will provide optimized protection against COVID-19 and the Omicron variant. I encourage all parents to keep their children up to date with CDC’s COVID-19 vaccine recommendations,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC’s director, said in a statement. Panel members in support said they were convinced by the recent rise in COVID-19 …