Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. (Image source: Marco Verch /CC BY 2.0)
[Look at China August 5, 2021](Look at Chinese reporter Cheng Rong compilation/compilation) The British government announced that all 16 and 17-year-oldsteenagerWithin a few weeks, without parental consent, the first dose of Pfizer Covid-19 will startvaccine. Vaccinations for younger adolescents are increasingly likely to follow.
The Times reported that the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI) in the United Kingdom recommended on August 4 that 1.4 million people aged 16 and 17 should be vaccinated. Ministers hope to start the promotion in August.
The government’s scientific advisers, seemingly not as worried about the risk of side effects as before, are now reviewing the vaccination recommendations for people over 12 years of age. Last month, the committee recommended against vaccinating healthy teenagers because the risk of heart inflammation is thought to outweigh the benefits of preventing a disease that is usually milder in children.
However, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization now considers these side effects to be extremely rare and usually mild, and data from the UK indicate that they affect approximately one in 100,000 vaccinated persons. However, they seem to be more common in young men. More and more other countries, including the United States, France and Israel, are vaccinating children, and these data also dispel people’s worries.
Pfizer Biotechnology is the only vaccine approved for use in children, and the government has enough doses to start providing this vaccine without disrupting the autumn intensive (third dose) program for people over 50.
Although the model shows that vaccinating adolescents may protect adults by slowing the spread of the virus, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization insists that this is not within its scope; its recommendations are based solely on the benefits to the children themselves. .
In any case, government officials are keen to build immunity among young people to prevent the re-emergence of the Covid-19 epidemic in winter. Therefore, the first dose of vaccination may start soon, but the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization is still considering whether the second dose of vaccine should be given after 8 weeks, like adults, or whether a different interval is more important for children. it is good.
Children over the age of 16 are generally considered capable of agreeing to medical treatment, so they can be vaccinated against the wishes of their parents.
Currently, there are only about 400,000 children aged 12 to 15 who are eligible for vaccination with immunization problems. The list of eligible health conditions may be expanded in the coming weeks.
Vaccinations are now being considered for all healthy children over the age of 12, and it looks increasingly likely to win approval later this year. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization is no longer opposed, but hopes to have more time to study the data to determine how common side effects are.
Professor Peter Openshaw of Imperial College London was not involved in the decision. He said that if he had teenage children, he would be “fully happy” to get them vaccinated. He said that the side effects of the vaccine are extremely rare, and “even people of this age are at considerable risk of infection and complications. I think we only need to balance these different pressures, and my judgment is that for teenagers Vaccination has many benefits.”
His colleague Paul Elliott, the chair of epidemiology at Imperial College London, said that vaccinating young people will help slow the spread of the virus. He told the Times Radio that the React study he hosted showed that young people’s cases are driving the development of the epidemic. He believes that “anything we can do is to reduce the infection rate of young people, which is very good.”
However, the latest study by the US health authorities found that the Delta mutant strain is the main infectious virus in the United States. 74% of those infected in Massachusetts in July have been vaccinated, and the amount of virus in their bodies is equivalent to that of those who have not been vaccinated.
The World Health Organization questioned the need to vaccinate young people and urged rich countries to suspend their intensive programs and send doses to unvaccinated people in developing countries.
British Food and Drug Administration: Strictly reviewed vaccine trials for children
The chairman of the British drug regulatory agency said at a news briefing in the Prime Minister’s Office that the decision to vaccinate young people was made after a “rigorous review” of trials on children and young people.
Dr. June Raine, Chief Executive Officer of the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), said: “All of this shows that (Pfizer vaccine) is as effective as what we have seen in adults between the ages of 16 and 25. This This means that the vaccine can be approved for young people between 12 and 15 years old.
“The safety data and the data of adolescents are comparable to what we have seen in young adults, and no new adverse events have been found. Like young people, the safety status shows mild to moderate reactions, and the way the vaccine works Consistent, maybe it’s body temperature, arm soreness, headache – and so on.”
However, Matthew Simonson, the lead author of the “Vaccinating America’s Youth.” report, pointed out that a recent poll by the Institute for Policy Research Poll found that almost one-third of 18-35-year-old young mothers are unwilling to do so. Get vaccinated for your own children.
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