Vaccination already open to the youngest.
On December 23, vaccination to affect all children aged 5 to 11 but some of them have already received their first injection.
The most fragile of the little ones already have the possibility of being vaccinated since December 15.
In the 9th arrondissement of Paris, the Richerand medical center is already welcoming these very young patients.
10-year-old Léa came with her mother: “I'm here because I have a little asthma and a little problem with my immune system,” says the young girl. "You can have a little effects because of the vaccine: you can have a little fever, you can have a little headache, especially a pain in the arm, aches and tired" list Jeanne Villeneuve, doctor and medical director of the center. Slight side effects that did not worry Lea's mother when she accompanied her daughter to the medical center. "It is a need to protect them, to protect your children first and to contain the virus as much as possible through this, and I think that vaccination is a national issue of course, European, but above all international . », Assures Emilie Roche.
"There are about thirty children who will be vaccinated here, next week a hundred", assures the medical director.
“We vaccinate children with the Pfizer vaccine at reduced doses, these are doses of 10 micrograms per child, which is lower than the adult dose.
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