Experts from the independent British medical-scientific committee that assists Boris Johnson’s government on the anti-Covid vaccination campaign (JCVI) today denied the green light to the administration – although authorized by the drug agencies – of vaccines to healthy children and young people between 12 and 15 years. According to the body, the relationship between risks and benefits for this age group does not suggest the green light based only on general health caution considerations, while vaccination among the very young would risk creating obstacles to school activity.
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.
United Kingdom, the catastrophists denied: infections stopped at 30 thousand a day
by our correspondent Antonello Guerrera
According to the recommendation formalized today by the Jcvi (Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization) to the executive in London, the administration of vaccines in two doses will be guaranteed, under the age of 16 and over 12, only to about 200 thousand children and young people residing in the Kingdom classified as vulnerable and at greater risk of contagion from Covid due to other previous pathologies: in particular with the diagnosis of chronic heart dysfunctions, lung or liver diseases.
The exclusion of healthy children was motivated by specialists across the Channel from the combination of the marginal risks linked to the very rare side effects of cardiac inflammation cases detected in the administration of Pfizer antidotes and the “insufficient evidence” of the experimental advantage. that such a vaccine could offer them given the limited impact of the coronavirus, especially in severe form, on this age group.
Meanwhile, the daily Covid infections fueled by the Delta variant in the United Kingdom and counted in the last 24 hours date back to 42,076 (about 2,500 more than yesterday and for the first time over 40,000 since July 19); 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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