The Joint Scientific Committee under the Centre for Health Protection held a meeting yesterday (1st) and agreed to lower the age limit for vaccination against Covid-19 to 6-month-old infants.
The Kexing vaccine can be used as an adult dose, but for Fubitx, one tenth of an adult dose must be taken.
Liu Yulong, chairman of the Scientific Committee on Vaccine Preventable Diseases, said in a radio program today (2nd) that if you cannot order the "Forbidden BB version", you will have to dilute it at the local main bank, but the dilution to ten-tenths of a dose is unprecedented and will be related to the Departments and pharmacists seek to overcome the difficulty of dilution at the technical level. If they find that they cannot be diluted after review, they will choose to "accept their fate" and can only use Sinovac vaccines for the time being.
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Liu Yulong said in Hong Kong and Taiwan's "Millennium Times" that a 22-month-old baby girl died yesterday, and a 35-month-old baby boy also developed symptoms such as fever and cramps after being infected.
As the number of infections in Hong Kong increases, the number of critical or fatal cases of young children has risen.
He pointed out that on average, for every 1,000 children aged 0 to 2 infected with the virus, "one and a half" of them are seriously, critically, or even killed; on average, one child in every 1,000 children aged 3 to 4 is infected with the virus Serious, critical or fatal.
Babies from as young as 6 months old can be vaccinated. Liu Yulong said that at present, young children can be vaccinated with adult doses of Kexing vaccine. Vaccination for at least three months.
Fubitai vaccine should be given at least eight weeks apart from one to two doses, and at least three months apart from the second to third doses to reduce the risk of myocarditis or pericarditis.
Liu Yulong pointed out that the protection rate of the Fubitai vaccine is effective against the variant virus, but the Kexing vaccine has no data to support it.
(Photo by Li Zetong)
The government is currently required to order "Forbidden BB" from Pfizer or Fosun Pharmaceuticals.
Liu said that if the order cannot be successfully ordered, the vaccine may need to be diluted locally, and an adult ten-tenth dose will be taken.
However, dilution to a tenth of a dose is unprecedented and unprecedented. The challenge for local dilution is whether to adjust the appropriate dose. If the dose is exceeded, side effects in young children will increase.
However, if it is less than the appropriate dose, the resistance is "unexpectedly good".
He emphasized that he will seek to overcome the difficulty of dilution at the technical level with relevant departments and pharmacists. If it is found that it cannot be diluted after review, he will choose to "accept fate" and only use Sinovac vaccines for the time being.
Asked whether the public needs the second-generation vaccine or the fifth shot?
Liu said that the current three injections are the basic plan. "There are two countries who have the fifth injection, and I am sweating." Yesterday, a group of people at the meeting of the Science and Technology Committee believed that it is necessary to keep injecting to catch up with the virus in order to cut off the infection.
He believes that "it is impossible to cut off the infection, and we cannot catch the virus."
Liu pointed out that there are still about 500,000 people over the age of 60 and children who have not received a single shot. With the gradual opening of customs clearance in autumn and winter, the risk of influx of mutant virus strains has greatly increased. Therefore, we should focus on protecting the old and the young.
Most people between the ages of 50 and 59 begin to decline in physical function and develop underlying diseases. Therefore, it is recommended that these people receive the fourth dose of the vaccine. It is also pointed out that the injection is not to prevent infection, but to reduce severe death after infection. Emphasis Not forcing citizens to get injections.
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