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The European Medicines Agency recommends administration of the COVID-19 vaccine to children aged 5-11. Soon, vaccination of children under 12 will start in Poland. Research shows that the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine in the 5-11 year age group protects against COVID-19 with an effectiveness of 90,7%, and side effects are rare and mild.

  1. During the fourth wave of the pandemic, the coronavirus increasingly bypasses children. Although they usually get milder, they are often hospitalized
  2. Vaccination of ever younger groups of children may be a solution. Most likely this week, the European Medicines Agency will issue a decision on the use of Pfizer / BionTech in children under 12 years of age
  3. Children are already vaccinated, among others in the United States, where several hundred small patients have died from the coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic. Israel also began vaccinating the 5-11 age group this week
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The United States was the first to use the coronavirus vaccine in children 5-11 years old. According to Usnews.com, more than 6 million infections have been recorded in the youngest patients since the beginning of the pandemic, of which almost 600 died. Another country that has decided to vaccinate children is Israel. Vaccination with Pfizer / BionTech is carried out there from Monday, November 22. On the first day, several hundred small patients were vaccinated, and the preparation was reserved for 24. children, or about 2,5 percent. qualifying in this age group.

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More and more children get sick with the coronavirus

The rapid spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus speaks in favor of vaccinating younger and younger age groups. As Pfizer Executive Director Albert Bourla said, quoted by Medonet, this led to the fact that «since July, the number of pediatric COVID-19 cases has increased by 240% in the U.S.. ». Bourla assessed that in this situation, vaccinating children against the coronavirus is a necessity. In September, Pfizer announced that the vaccine was ready for use in children under 12 years of age. On November 3, 2021, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended a vaccine for children in the US. According to research, it provides high protection against COVID-19.

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Vaccinating children against COVID-19. Highly effective, mild side effects

The Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19 for children aged 5-11 is almost 91%. effective in treating symptomatic infection, according to documents released last Friday by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). According to Pfizer, the vaccine is also highly effective in the case of infection with the Delta variant.

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The company has been testing the effectiveness of the vaccine for the past few weeks. Children are given one-third of the adult dose (children – 10 mcg, adults – 30 mcg).

The lower dose has been carefully adjusted for safety, tolerability and immunogenicity in children between 5 and 11 years of age, the company said in a press release. She also found thatthe side effects in children are “generally comparable to those seen in people aged 16 to 25 years”. In the examined children, shoulder pain was the most common. In the studied group of 3 100 children aged 5-11 years old, no serious side effects were reported.

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The effectiveness of the vaccine was also assessed as very high in the age group of 12-15 years. The company announced that it is 100 percent.

In turn, in adolescents over 16 years of age, the effectiveness in preventing severe infection is estimated at 91%, while in preventing infection with the Delta variant it is estimated at 96%.

Do you want to test your COVID-19 immunity after vaccination? Have you been infected and want to check your antibody levels? See the COVID-19 immunity test package, which you will perform at Diagnostics network points.

Also read:

  1. Vaccinations against COVID-19 of children aged 5-11 have started in Israel
  2. How many children in Poland died from COVID-19? “It’s a lot”
  3. Vaccinating children against COVID-19. What is known so far? [REPORT]

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