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Corona vaccination for children: long wait for the prick for the little ones

2021-12-03T13:09:38.174Z


After the European Medicines Agency EMA approved the corona vaccination for children between the ages of five and eleven, the first boys and girls in Germany are to be immunized before Christmas. However, they still have to be patient in the district of Erding.


After the European Medicines Agency EMA approved the corona vaccination for children between the ages of five and eleven, the first boys and girls in Germany are to be immunized before Christmas.

However, they still have to be patient in the district of Erding.

Erding

- Munich tried it for a few hours, in Vienna it is already everyday life, in some countries such as the USA as well: the corona vaccination for children between the ages of five and eleven. Now that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has approved the vaccination for this age group, the first children in Germany are to be immunized before Christmas. However, they still have to be patient in the Erding district, as a survey showed. Dr. Markus Marschall, Chairman of the Medical District Association, has not yet received any feedback from his pediatric colleagues. "I am in favor of starting with the young at risk patients," he says in an interview with our newspaper. The pulmonologist currently sees no urgent need for healthy children. The study situation is relatively thin. He points outthat children are generally not at risk and deaths are extremely rare.

Child vaccination: not yet an issue in the vaccination center

In the vaccination center of the BRK, the five to eleven year olds will be left out, at least initially.

Its medical director, Dr.

Hermann Schöberl explains: "This is not planned for the first time, and not just for reasons of capacity." He is of the opinion that the child vaccination is best kept by the specialist doctors.

"The need for advice is significantly higher in this age group, so you have to be particularly sensitive," Schöberl is convinced.

Like Marschall, he is in favor of starting with high-risk patients, i.e. chronically ill children.

He cites asthma, diabetes and congenital defects as examples.

In the medium term, Schöberl does not want to rule out “that one day we will also vaccinate children”.

Pediatricians are awaiting the recommendation of the StiKo

The topic is dealt with differently in the practices.

From the practice of Dr.

Niedermeier in Erding says that the demand is high and that they already have a waiting list.

Especially at the beginning you expect a rush.

The practice of Dr.

Hasenpusch / Dr.

Rohland in Erding receives a lot of calls.

But there is no waiting list yet.

Here one waits for the recommendation of the Standing Vaccination Commission (StiKo).

In the case of young people, this did not come about until weeks after the EMA was approved.

There are also no lists in the Huber / Gaigl practice in Erding - unlike before the vaccination of twelve to 18 year olds in the summer.

Here, too, one does not reach for the needle with the younger ones until the recommendation of the StiKo is available.

Children are not considered to be a pandemic driver.

In addition, no other group is tested so closely.

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Source: merkur

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