Parents across Australia are now able to book COVID-19 vaccinations for their children aged 5 to 11. Bookings opened from Dec. 15, with inoculations for this age group set to commence on Jan.10 through state and territory-run clinics, pharmacies, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services, and Commonwealth Vaccination Centres. Children aged 5 to 11 will receive two doses of the Comirnaty (Pfizer) vaccine, eight weeks apart, and the dose will be one third that of kids aged 12 and over. This comes after the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) provisionally approved the Pfizer vaccine for this age group on Dec.5. According to the TGA, this provisional approval was granted based on careful consideration of data from clinical trials carried out in the United States, Finland, Poland, and Spain, which included participants aged between 5 and 11. These trials demonstrated that the vaccine’s effectiveness in this age group is similar to that in the …