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More and more of the youngest patients infected with the coronavirus go to hospitals. There have been 450 such cases in the past two weeks. Experts have no doubts that it is time to vaccinate in the younger groups. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended the administration of the COVID-19 vaccine by Pfizer / BioNtech for use in children aged 5-11 years.
- EMA has decided to approve the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer / BioNtech for children aged 5 to 11
- The effectiveness of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine in clinical trials conducted in a group of children aged 5-11 was 90,7%.
- In the US alone, 19 children have died from COVID-700. In Poland, the number of hospitalizations of children since the beginning of the pandemic amounted to 17.
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More and more countries are choosing to vaccinate against COVID-19 children 5-11 years old. On Thursday, the European Medicines Agency made a decision on this matter.
Previously, vaccinations among children were introduced, among others in the USA, Israel and Canada. This was due to the increasing incidence of the disease in this age group. In Poland, more and more young patients suffer from COVID-19, and many of them require hospital treatment.
How many children get COVID-19?
During the Wednesday press conference, Grzegorz Cessak, president of the Office for Registration of Medicinal Products, Medical Devices and Biocidal Products (URPL), announced that in In Poland, from the beginning of the pandemic to November 14, 17 thousand people were hospitalized. kids. Since November 5, there has been an avalanche increase in the cases of children with COVID-19 requiring treatment in a hospital in Poland. In the last two weeks, this number has been 450 cases.
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Cessak He also added that according to the data of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, out of 1000 hospitalized children in Europe aged 5-11, 87 go to intensive care units. The children who were hospitalized had no comorbidities.
According to experts, immunization of children is essential. So far, 1,6 million children aged 12 to 17 have been vaccinated in Poland. Adverse events were extremely rare, measured in fractions of a percent.
Vaccinations for children between 5 and 11 years of age may begin in the coming weeks. Research on the vaccine for a group of this age was conducted by 90 centers around the world. Vaccines dedicated to children aged 5-11 are to be delivered to Poland in mid-December.
Some countries are already vaccinating younger children. Israel began vaccinating children ages 19-5 against COVID-11 on Monday. A vaccine from Pfizer / BioNtech is used, which ensures that their preparation is 90,7% effective, and this is confirmed by clinical trials conducted on a group of people in this age group. The United States was the first to take this step. More countries are following this example, which is to further reduce the number of infected and severe courses of COVID-19.
As the Reuters news agency points out, Israel decided to vaccinate children because the reproductive rate of the virus in this country exceeded one. In Israel, half of the COVID-19 cases occur in children 11 years of age and younger. According to estimates by the Israeli Ministry of Health, one in 3500 children is likely to develop multiple systemic inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C), which may involve a number of organs, including heart and lungs.
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According to Salman Zarki, who is responsible for coordinating vaccination preparations for this age group in Israel, “the disease is mild in children, but there are cases where the disease may persist with long-term symptoms such as insomnia and muscle aches. In the USA, over 3 million children have already been vaccinated and we see the effective results ».
In the US, no vaccinated child has died from COVID-19
Since the beginning of the pandemic in the USA, 19 million 6 thousand people have fallen ill with COVID-800. kids. From 11 to 18 November, 142 thousand people received a positive test result. the youngest, which constituted 32 percent. increase compared to the previous two weeks. For 15 weeks, cases of illness among children have remained at the level of over 100.
Since the beginning of September alone, 19 million children have fallen ill with COVID-1,7 in the US. Hospitalization of children in the US remains at 1,7%. up to 4 percent Currently, illness among children in the US is responsible for 25 percent. all cases. In the US, 700 children have died from COVID-19, making the disease one of the 10 most common causes of child death in the US. No child who was vaccinated died of COVID-19.
Vaccinations against COVID-19 among children aged 5-11 have also been introduced by Canada, where nearly 75 percent. society is fully vaccinated. This is due to the recent surge in infections.
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