The president of the Vaccine Strategy Orientation Council, Alain Fischer, regretted Friday, January 7 that the agreement of both parents, and no longer just one, is now necessary to vaccinate children from 5 to 11 years old against the Covid-19.
"
I think it's a bit unfortunate, it's an obstacle that dramatizes this notion of vaccination a bit ," the government's "
Mister vaccine
" said on LCI on
Friday .
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Following a request from the Council of State, the Ministry of Health clarified Thursday evening that it would now take the agreement of both parents to vaccinate the children. Concretely, only one parent can be present during the vaccination appointment of a child from 5 to 11 years old, but he will have to be provided with a certificate on the honor according to which the second parent agrees, specified the Ministry. "
We have data on millions of children vaccinated
" in Israel and the United States, "
the side effects are even lower than in adolescents and adults
," said Pr Fischer, advocating for this vaccination in younger.
“
There are sick children: around 300 children under 10 are currently hospitalized in France;
we know that vaccination prevents these complications, the possible long Covid
”, he argued.
Open since the end of December to all children, vaccination for this age group starts "
slowly
", he admitted.
To date, very few have received a first injection: "
80-90,000
", or "
just over 1%
".
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To accelerate it, it is necessary to increase the possibilities of vaccination (among doctors, pediatricians, in centers ...) and to do "
pedagogy
", conceded Professor Fischer.
He also said he was in favor of opening a booster dose for adolescents aged 12-18, currently reserved for the most fragile.
"
I think we will get there, I hope it will be generalized to all adolescents in the coming weeks
," he said.
