“I believe … that we should vaccinate children, there are several reasons for doing so.” Thus immunologist Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in a speech given earlier this week, according to the CNBC website, during an event organized by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
The first reason, said Fauci, is that the youngest are “vehicles of spread” of the virus: the doctor pointed out in this regard that the transmission of the Delta variant is continuing to raise the cases of Covid-19 in a moment where schools are reopening.
The situation, he explained, is particularly alarming in the southern states of the United States, with pediatric intensive care units at their peak in Florida, Texas, Georgia and Mississippi.
The CNBC website reports that doctors and epidemiologists fear that hospitalizations for Covid may even worsen, unless children are also injected with vaccines and the authorities establish the obligation to wear masks.
“We are almost at the limit – said the immunologist – we currently have many children hospitalized. Furthermore, even if children do not get seriously ill compared to adults, we have lost more children with
SARS-CoV-2 of the kind we’ve ever lost with the flu. And we vaccinate children against the flu. ”
The third reason for supporting the proposal to vaccinate children against the coronavirus, Fauci said, is the possible long-term effects of the cofobairus infection.
“We do not know what (long-term) effects there will be for anyone, including children. So, it may be, to our great bafflement, that children who become infected are affected by long-term consequences that we do not fully recognize at this time. “.
“For all these reasons – concluded Fauci – or the transmissibility of the virus, the severity of the disease and the uncertainty about the long-term consequences, I have come to firmly believe in the need to vaccinate our children”.
Mississippi health authorities yesterday announced the death of a child (the seventh in a month among children with Covid) in the US state – under the age of 1 year, due to complications due to the coronavirus, while there are eight pregnant women who lost their lives, starting August 1st.
All eight women were not vaccinated. Thomas Dobbs, an official of the Mississippi State Department of Health, pointed out that Covid-19 is particularly dangerous and problematic for pregnant women and that it can be potentially fatal to the fetus.