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The Ministry of Health is considering: a live broadcast of the discussion on the children's vaccine Israel today

2021-10-24T00:59:16.860Z


Senior official: "Examining how to increase transparency" • Pfizer: The vaccine for children is more effective than 91% • Today: The green class model comes into force; Supervised dormitories: We will not implement it


The Ministry of Health is examining the possibility of broadcasting this week live part of the experts' discussion on the approval of the vaccine in children, as the Americans do with them.

On Tuesday this week, a committee of experts from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will discuss vaccination approval for ages 5 to 11. After the approval in the United States, the experts' discussion is expected in Israel. The summaries of the meetings were published.

However, a senior health ministry official said they were discussing "in what format to do things to achieve more transparency. They are also discussing in which forum the decision will be made, perhaps in a team to deal with epidemics and perhaps in a wider composition. "The understanding that the issue of childhood vaccines is particularly sensitive. We want to do it in a very considered way. Weigh the pros and cons and present it clearly. I think it will be decided that it will be clear that the vaccines are safe and effective."

US Food and Drug Administration Building, FDA, Photo: Reuters

Discussions have recently taken place in the epidemic treatment team demanding transparency, similar to the way the deliberations of the FDA Advisory Committee are broadcast live.

But the epidemic treatment team rejected the proposal, with some members saying they had received threats due to positions they presented at the hearing.

It is estimated that the vaccines for children will be given starting in December and possibly even earlier.

In Israel, there are still no vaccine-adapted vaccines for children.

There is a purchase agreement with Pfizer, but the arrival of the vaccine doses for children is expected to take a few more weeks.

The vaccines are expected to be given at the health funds and it is still unclear if they will be given in schools as well.

Pfizer announced Friday that the special vaccine it has developed for ages 5 to 11 has shown 90.7 percent efficacy in preventing symptoms in the event of a coronavirus infection in an experiment it conducted.

The experiment showed that in the vaccinated group the symptoms were much milder than the symptoms of those infected in the unvaccinated control group.

The organizations that operate the supervised day care centers (Naamat, WIZO and others) refuse to apply the green class model to them from today, "for the simple reason that until now we have not been given a single antigen test," it said.

Criticism was also heard from private operators of frameworks for births up to 3. The chair of the Private Kindergartens Forum, Adv. Keren Ohana-Ios:

The green classroom project is expanding to kindergartens and daycare centers, in the green and yellow cities.

Source: israelhayom

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