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The question of vaccinating children will be decided today in a closed-door discussion, contrary to the opinion of some experts
After an open-air public hearing last week, the epidemic treatment team will decide whether to vaccinate children ages 11-5.
Some members of the committee expressed reservations and criticized the decision to close the hearings.
If the experts recommend vaccinating the children, the operation is expected to open in the coming weeks
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Meirav Cohen
Tuesday, 09 November 2021, 22:37 Updated: Wednesday, 10 November 2021, 06:19
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The epidemic treatment team will decide today (Wednesday) whether to vaccinate children aged 11-5, in a discussion that will be held behind closed doors.
This is despite internal criticism from some committee members who pushed for the hearing to be open to the public, similar to last week's hearing, which was broadcast live.
The Corona virus' information headquarters explained the decision, noting that the discourse on the networks, which included threats against the head of the public health service, Dr. Sharon Elrai Price, also played a part in the discussions not being broadcast in the end. " Free and open on such a sensitive and crucial issue against the background of a prevailing violent discourse, which may affect the course of the discussion.
"Once the decision has been made, the IDF will publish the summary of the hearing, as is customary."
The campaign is expected to begin in the coming weeks, after Pfizer's vaccine doses arrive in Israel.
"It will take at least a few more weeks because we do not have the vaccines yet," Elrai Price said yesterday in an interview with Walla !.
"When the vaccines arrive, and the IDF will recommend, all our systems are ready for rapid action.
"All the infrastructure exists in both the Ministry of Health and the health funds, so as soon as there are vaccines we can start."
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Vaccinated teens (Photo: Flash 90, Olivier Fitoussi)
Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz said last night that the vaccination campaign will begin after the decision of the expert team and that "every parent will make the decisions about his children. We are not forcing anyone and not forcing anyone." He noted that the vials of the childhood vaccines, which include a smaller dose than the adult vaccines, will arrive in the coming days. "In the first stage, we would rather be vaccinated at the health funds than at the schools," Horowitz said.
On Thursday, for the first time live and with the participation of the public, discussions were held on the vaccination of children aged 11-5 against Corona, after months of criticism of the lack of transparency of the Ministry of Health. Until then, there had been 34 discussions of the forum, and each time the ministry published a detailed minutes of the meeting after a few days.
The discussion at the UAV included a presentation by the health system experts and the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, as well as a response to issues that would arise from the public and the hearing of various positions.
Among other things, the Ministry of Health presented data at the hearing which show that about a million children remain vaccinated in Israel and that about 230,000 children have so far fallen ill in Corona.
The data also show that about 500 children were hospitalized as a result of the virus.
3,000 of the children had a line in post-corona, and about 500 in pims syndrome.
Three children died from the virus.
IDF experts in a discussion that was broadcast live last week (Photo: Walla !, screenshot)
"In teens, 92% are found to be protected from infection and 95% by infection with symptoms," Elrai Price said at the hearing. "This means that a vaccinated child is 12 times more protected from infection and 20 times more than being sick with symptoms. A vaccinated person is less contagious."
Dan Yemin, a risk expert, said the vaccine is safe but the price of a mistake in this regard would be huge. A professor of management, Sequence Levy, a faculty member at MIT, said that "the extreme immunization policy in Israel must be stopped." Haim Katlan, a paramedic, and father of five, said: "I was not convinced that this vaccine is necessary for children at this moment."
In contrast, most of the experts expressed support during.
Dr. Michal Stein, director of the infectious diseases unit at Hillel Yaffe, claimed that there was no evidence of harm to a woman's fertility. To the adult population.
Prof. Ron Dagan, an expert in infectious diseases in children and a vaccine specialist, said: "Children aged 11-5 are the next vulnerable population. The best time for their vaccination is now before the next variant."
Prof. Eli Somekh, director of the pediatric ward at Maayan Hayeshua Hospital, is in favor of giving children vaccines, but said: "Children and adults differ in doses. Children under 12 have been shown to produce the same level of antibodies and a good response to lower doses."
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