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100 children have already received the experimental vaccine for corona
Pfizer vaccinated about 100 children, the youngest of whom were 12 years old, last week with its experimental vaccine against corona.
This, as part of the third and final phase of the clinical trial.
So far only older volunteers have received the vaccine
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Wednesday, 28 October 2020, 07:02
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Last week, Pfizer's experimental vaccine against Covid-19 was given for the first time to the youngest volunteers who have received it so far - about a hundred children of different ages, the youngest of whom are only 12 years old.
A team of scientists and doctors from the Children's Hospital in Cincinnati closely and thoroughly monitors side effects that may occur in young volunteers.
"We are now on a planned and planned break in the trial, where we are waiting to see if there are any side effects or reactions to the vaccine. We want to make sure everything is done in the safest way possible," said Dr. Robert Frank of Cincinnati Children's Hospital in an interview with CNN. Doctors examine children and look for side effects such as lumps, local redness or pain at the place where they received the vaccine, or more general symptoms such as fever and pain.
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One of the youngest volunteers in the experiment is 12-year-old Avinab, a seventh-grade student whose parents asked that only his first name be revealed in an attempt to protect his privacy.
Avinab was also interviewed by CNN and said he hopes that when a vaccine is found for the entire population his grandparents, who live in India, will be able to visit him again in the US and school classes will return to normal.
Only half of the children received the real vaccine, the rest received a placebo as part of a control group.
Covid-19 vaccine (Photo: Reuters)
"I think everyone in my school would like to get back to routine. I really believe that a vaccine could stop the spread of the virus. I think right now, yes I would ask more children to get this vaccine," Avinab said when asked by the interviewer if he would recommend more children. be immunized.
Avinab knows that the chance of getting the real vaccine against the corona virus is only 50 percent.
Half of the experimental volunteers, including the children, received a dummy injection (placebo), and belong to the control group.
However, he very much hopes that he has received the real vaccine, because he believes that the vaccine can protect him from contracting the virus and later prevent him from infecting others as well.
The father volunteered for stage 1, the son volunteered for stage 3
Sahrat, Avinab's father, was more preoccupied with him in matters of experimental safety.
Asked why he eventually agreed that his son would participate in the experiment, he said: "I think the main reason was that I wanted to protect him. And later in the process also because it helps advance science. We felt it was the right thing to do."
Sahrat is a doctor who works at the hospital in Cincinnati and also himself volunteered for a Pfizer trial, even in the first phase of the clinical trials in the vaccine that took place earlier this year.
Therefore, he said, he felt that not only would his son's participation in the experiment not endanger him, but it would also protect him from the virus.
"Everyone would like to get back to routine."
Students in Hong Kong are tested with masks and while maintaining distance, during the corona plague (Photo: Reuters)
A vaccine trial of another company - AstraZeneca, was stopped in the US and UK for two months, after one of the UK volunteers developed neurological symptoms. Last week this trial was renewed in the US, but in the UK it is still suspended.
Dr Frank, who is accompanying the trial in children, said he understands that people may be stressed at the thought of giving children an experimental vaccine, but noted that Pfizer's vaccine has been successfully tested on tens of thousands of adult volunteers. "The reason we can now give this vaccine to children is Pfizer "We tested him on 30,000 adults, and we have data on his safety from all those volunteers," he said.
In addition, according to Dr. Frank, it is important to test the vaccine on children as well, because any vaccine plan approved will have to include children and adolescents to control the plague. Which he says is almost certainly a significant part of its quiet spread.
"It is important to remember that although adolescents and children do not develop severe symptoms like adults or other groups in the population, there are still children who develop a serious illness and even die. In the U.S., 120 children died from corona," Dr. Frank said.
Doctors follow up on volunteers and look for side effects like pain or redness in the vaccine area.
Vaccine given to the arm muscle (illustration: shutterstock)
Pfizer's vaccine does not contain the active virus that causes Covid-19 but uses a small part of its genetic material, called mRNA.
This is a scientific approach originally developed to fight cancer.
"This is the first time that this technique will be used against infectious disease," said Dr. Frank.
Vaccine causes the immune system to produce antibodies that attack the protein spikes - which among other things gives the corona virus and identified unique shape, but is also one that allows the virus to enter the body's cells it attacks .
"Any vaccination plan that is approved will have to include children and adolescents as well, if they want to control the epidemic."
Students wearing masks at the Schiffer school in Petah Tikva (Photo: Reuven Castro)
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So far, the side effects seen in the trial group at Cincinnati Hospital have been mild, according to Dr. Frank. "Some people have experienced some pain," the doctor said, "these pains are probably no different from those caused by the body's immune response when it fights any infection." None of the 400 adults who received the vaccine at the Cincinnati test site missed a work day following symptoms he developed because of the experimental vaccine, Dr. Frank reports. The
side effects observed so far in children who received the vaccine were similar. Ibuprofen and felt fine after that, "said Dr. Frank. As for Avinab, "right now my hand is feeling just fine," he reported.
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