Start the vaccination of reinforcement against Covid-19 for children between 5 and 11 years old

The Ministry of Health reported that they will begin with the application of booster doses of covid-19 vaccines in children between 5 and 11 years old. According to the statement, the immunizations that will be used will be RNA platform and will be applied, after 120 days of having completed the initial vaccination schedule. In addition, the Health Ministry specified that the decision was agreed within the framework of the Federal Health Council (Cofesa) and, additionally, has the scientific support of the Argentine Society of Pediatrics (SAP). The communication from the Ministry of Health takes place in a context with a fourth wave of Covid-19, with a weekly increase in cases that is in the order of 10,000.” The specialists argued that there is already enough information on the safety of these vaccines in girls and boys, and gave as an example the case of Chile and the United States, where progress has been made in the authorization of reinforcements for this population,” said the statement of the portfolio led by Carla Vizzotti. the effectiveness of the primary schemes decreases over time, something that was proven even in the pediatric population.” In addition, they revealed that “the burden of COVID-19 disease in children is not as mild as estimated at the beginning, something observed particularly with the Ómicron variant, and the possibility of cases with long-term sequelae even in mild initial cases has already been evidenced.”

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