The Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell, reiterated that there is no public health justification for vaccinating against COVID-19 to the children that have no comorbidities.
He said that the probability that children have to die from COVID-19 is “very low” and that vaccination does not substantially modify a risk of “already low”.
“Complications and deaths from COVID-19 in children without comorbidities are unlikely,” he said on social media.
The publication was accompanied by graphs on the main causes of death in people from 0 to 19 years old in the country, in 2020.
In the disseminated graphs, in relation to children from 5 to 9 years old, it indicates that 61 minors have died from COVID; among those under the age of 10 and 14, the coronavirus has caused the death of 92.
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For both sectors of the population, this disease occupies the 10th place in the causes of death.
While in the case of children between 1 and 4 years old, there have been 110 deaths from COVID; while children under 1 years old show 208 cases.
Vaccination in this sector has no public health justification because vaccines do not substantially modify an already low risk. Complications and deaths from #COVID19 in children without comorbidities are unlikely. 2/2
— Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez (@HLGatell) December 29, 2021
López-Gatell said that the World Health Organization (WHO) has not recommended vaccinating children.
Yesterday, the undersecretary said that in the country it has been decided not to vaccinate children under 15 against COVID-19 because of “a public health logic, a technical and scientific logic.”
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He said the WHO called for priority to vaccinate adults in countries with low vaccination.
He indicated, in a morning press conference, that the countries that have decided to vaccinate minors is because they have surpluses of biologics because the expiration date of the dose is approaching and “it is urgent for them to take them out.”
In the country, a VACCINE against COVID-19 has only been applied to adolescents between 12 and 17 years old with some comorbidity, which may increase the risk of severe coronavirus and death, as well as young people between 15 and 17 years old without comorbidities.
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