After FDA approval: Experts will discuss toddler vaccines against corona
The epidemic treatment team will discuss giving the corona vaccine to children from the age of six months to the age of five, against the background of the recent rise in morbidity.
The Association of Pediatricians is expected to recommend the administration of the vaccine, which according to preliminary studies has not led to serious side effects among the vaccinated children
Meirav Cohen
19/06/2022
Sunday, 19 June 2022, 13:45 Updated: 14:25
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The epidemic treatment team will convene this coming Tuesday to discuss vaccinations for toddlers and young children, from the age of six months to the age of five.
This is after the vaccine was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The Association of Pediatricians is expected to recommend the administration of the vaccine, and not just support the opening of the possibility for those interested.
Last Wednesday, the FDA unanimously recommended vaccinating infants from the age of six months against the corona virus in a vaccine of modern companies and Pfizer.
In studies conducted prior to the committee discussion, no serious side effects were recorded among the vaccinated children.
Following this, pediatric vaccinations in the United States are expected to begin as early as this week.
"We know that millions of parents and caregivers are eager to vaccinate their young children, and now they can do it," said Rochelle Wolensky, head of the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Corona is usually a milder disease in children.
Still, since March 2020, it has been the fifth leading cause of death for children ages 1-4 in the United States, and the fourth leading cause of death for infants less than a year old, before the center data.
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Corona Vaccine (Photo: GettyImages, Joe Raedle)
The director general of the Ministry of Health, Prof. Nachman Ash, agreed this morning that Israel is at the beginning of a "new wave", but emphasized that at this stage the ministry hopes that it will be possible to pass it without special restrictions
. A little more - there was an increase and very quickly it went down ", Ash told 103FM," this time it is really different and there is a new variant, the BA-5 which is more contagious, and now you can start calling it by its name, I think you can start calling it a new wave ". He confirmed that the Ministry of Health identifies an increase in verified data and also in morbidity and hospitalization, but not in mortality, and said that before the current data, it is" more or less "as dangerous as the Omicron strain.
47,301 people are defined, as of this morning, verified blue in Corona, 147 Seriously ill. Eight people infected with corona have died in the past week, and their total number since the onset of the plague stands at 10,896.
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