Drugmakers still haven’t started testing their coronavirus vaccines in children, putting kids at the end of the line for a potential shot

Drugmakers still haven’t started testing their coronavirus vaccines in children, putting kids at the end of the line for a potential shot

Ongoing clinical trials are testing the top coronavirus vaccine candidates only in adults.

Some experts are worried about the timeline for making a shot available to kids. 

Moderna expects to start testing its vaccine candidate in kids later this year, if regulators give the Massachusetts biotech the greenlight, Business Insider has learned.

But few specifics are available on when pediatric trials will start and the timeline for ultimately having a COVID-19 shot available for kids.

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Progress on coronavirus vaccines has moved remarkably fast since the novel virus was first identified and sequenced in January. The leading experimental shots are now in the final stage of clinical trials, with results expected as soon as next month.

But that progress has focused on crafting