Despite the daily peak of 42.076 new positives – about 2,500 more than yesterday and for the first time over 40,000 since July 19 – in Great Britain the administration of the Covid vaccine for healthy children and young people among 12 and 15 years was denied. The stop came from the experts of the independent British medical-scientific committee that assists the government of Boris Johnson.
Committee members therefore held back on administering the drug – authorized by agencies – to healthy children in that age group. According to the body, the relationship between risks and benefits for this age group does not suggest the green light based only on considerations of general health caution, while vaccination among the very young would risk creating obstacles to school activity.
Under 16 vaccine, the decision
The mass extension of the under-16 vaccination campaign had already been the subject of opposing views from several of the most influential British academics in recent weeks, including some executive advisers. While the government of Boris Johnson had never before had never advanced any explicit hypothesis of a generalized involvement of the very young, unlike what is being planned in some other country.
According to recommendation formalized today by the JCVI (Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization) to the London executive, the administration of vaccines in two doses will be guaranteed, under the age of 16 and above 12, only at about 200,000 between boys and children residents of the Kingdom classified as vulnerable and at greater risk of contagion from Covid due to other previous pathologies: in particular with a diagnosis of chronic heart dysfunctions, lung or liver diseases.
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The exclusion of healthy children was motivated by the specialists across the Channel from the conjunction between marginal risks linked to the very rare side effects of cases of cardiac inflammation detected in the administration of Pfizer antidotes and “insufficient evidence»Experiments on the advantage that this vaccine could offer them given the limited impact of the coronavirus, especially in severe form, on this age group.
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They date back to 42.076 the daily Covid infections fueled by the Delta variant in the United Kingdom and counted in the last 24 hours; although on a daily number of tests increased from one to 1.15 million. While the death toll returns to drop (to 121, against 178 yesterday) and the total hospitalizations stabilize around 7,500: with a much lower impact than that of the pre-vaccine waves of the pandemic against the backdrop of vaccination coverage reached almost 80% of over 16s with 2 doses and almost 90% with one.
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