The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will hear from its vaccine advisory panel later this month on booster shots for the Johnson & Johnson and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines and vaccinating children as young as 5. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will meet on Oct. 20 and Oct. 21, followed by a second two-day meeting starting Nov. 2. The advisory panel consists of outside scientists who give recommendations to the CDC pertaining to vaccines. The first set of meetings will come several days after the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) vaccine advisory panel meets on proposals to allow booster shots of the Johnson & Johnson and Moderna jabs. The same panel is scheduled to convene in late October on the matter of letting children between 5 and 11 get Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. Currently, only children 12 or older can. Pfizer submitted a request for emergency use authorization this …