Children aged twelve and over may soon be vaccinated against the coronavirus.
The President of the Hamburg Medical Association calls for a scientific assessment.
Hamburg - Anyone who finds it difficult to decide about their own vaccination will certainly not find it easier for their children to vaccinate.
Pedram Emami, President of the Medical Association of Hamburg, now has a tailwind for the Lieber-Waiting group among the parents.
He definitely doesn't want to be seen as a vaccine skeptic and doesn't believe in denying the danger of the coronavirus.
Nevertheless, he warns of haste.
It is not an easy decision to be put before the parents in the coming months: Have the children vaccinated against Corona * - and finally enable them to live a more carefree life after the long lockdown *?
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Or would you prefer to wait - because vaccination could also involve risks?
Coronavirus: Child vaccination should be scientifically weighed
"Is the risk of severe disease progression in this age group really so high that broad protection through vaccination is absolutely necessary for everyone?" This is one of the questions that the President of the Hamburg Medical Association, Pedram Emami, would like to have discussed.
He told the NDR that the benefits and risks had to be weighed very carefully on a scientific basis.
This also includes investigating whether vaccination of children and adolescents is necessary from an epidemiological point of view - for example to prevent the spread of the disease in other age groups.
Or not.
Vaccinate children against Corona: The USA and Canada are already vaccinating, Spahn is hoping for the vaccination from the summer
In the USA, children from the age of twelve can be vaccinated against the coronavirus since this week, and in Canada for longer.
Also because it is hoped to immunize as large a section of the population as possible.
Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn (CDU) hopes that vaccination offers * for children from twelve can also be made in Germany from the summer - as soon as the approval is given.
The decision to do so is voluntary, he recently emphasized.
The Biontech vaccine * is currently being tested by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), after which the Stiko in Germany would also have to approve. This is still slowed down: "In any case, we want to carefully check the data on the vaccination of children before a general vaccination recommendation for children can be given," said the chairman of the Standing Vaccination Commission, Thomas Mertens. "Arguments currently under discussion, such as vacation, cannot be the primary decision-making arguments of Stiko," he said. If the approval is granted for children from 12 to 15 years of age, "then children with serious pre-existing illnesses should actually be vaccinated first".
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