An independent panel of experts advising the Food and Drug Administration is scheduled to vote on Tuesday on whether to recommend to the agency that Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine be authorized for children and adolescents ages 6 to 17.
The panel’s recommendation is a key step toward authorizing the vaccine for those children, but it is not the final say. The F.D.A., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state health departments all still have roles to play in deciding whether…
