"In the pediatric population the risk of undergoing serious Covid disease is limited if not insignificant, for all this fortunately the price paid in terms of lives lost in the pediatric population was 19 patients under 18 who lost their lives and there was often a concomitant pathology ".
However, the very young "may be exposed to stress as a result of measures to contain the pandemic".
This is what the Coordinator of the Scientific Technical Committee, Franco Locatelli, said in a hearing in the Senate committee.
"Especially in view of the resumption of the school year next year, it is important to put in place tools for teaching in presence significantly greater than in the last two years, with a particular eye on local public transport and with the activation of vaccination courses, once they are approved by the Medicines Agency, also for the pediatric population ".