How safe is it to vaccinate children and adolescents against coronavirus

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Mass vaccination of children against coronavirus is not needed, said the developers of 

EpiVacCorona. They believe that there is no reason to launch a large-scale vaccination 

campaign. Children "get sick much easier," Rinat Maksyutov, Director General of the Vector 

Center, explained his position on the Russia 1 TV channel.

 However, pediatricians who see infected children disagree with this message. Adolescents 

over 12 years of age get sick just as badly as adults, said Rosanna Gardashnik, chief 

physician at the European Medical Center Children's Clinic: storms in adults. And children 

are going through all this quite hard, sometimes it comes to resuscitation.

Therefore, even a single severe course of the disease in a child does not give us a chance 

to relax and do nothing in this direction. Both newborns and pregnant women are ill, we all 

know this very well. Yes, less often, but the position should be principled: to prevent 

even rare serious diseases. What other ways to protect against coronavirus can I use? It is 

necessary to quickly form collective immunity, to create protection among employees of 

institutions that are visited by children, as well as among parents. The more there are 

around the vaccinated, the less chance of transmission of the virus from vaccinated to 

vaccinated.

Everything else works the same way as it did: you need to avoid visiting crowded places, 

maintain social distance, ventilate the premises, and clean. Humidity control is very 

important so that viruses do not hang in the air on dust particles, wet cleaning should be 

done every three to four hours, in medical institutions we do this once every two hours. In 

addition, it is necessary to study all background conditions, for example, iron deficiency 

anemia or latent iron deficiency, deficiency of vitamin D, iodine, work with foci of 

chronic infection, that is, with everything that can contribute to the quickest infection 

of the child. "

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In many Western countries, adolescents over the age of 12 have been vaccinated for several 

months. At the same time, of all existing vaccines, only one has been approved for this - 

the development of Pfizer. Children are injected with the same drug as adults. Vaccination 

of children and adolescents is advisory in nature, but authorities urge parents to 

vaccinate their children before the start of the school year.

An active campaign is being carried out in the USA, Italy, Spain, Germany. In France, 

teenagers over 12 years old will have to present a vaccinated certificate to visit a 

theater or concert hall. And from the end of August, a child without a COVID passport will 

not be allowed on a plane or train. Israel is considered the world leader in childhood 

vaccination, where every third teenager has received both doses. In addition, they began to 

vaccinate preschoolers - children from five years old, said Vlad Zernitsky, editor-in-chief 

of the Israeli radio station First Radio:

“Children are vaccinated with Pfizer, but the dosage is three times less than usual. This 

is not a necessary procedure for all children. The Ministry of Health focused primarily on 

children who suffer from severe obesity, complex chronic lung diseases, impaired nervous 

development, heart failure, and severe autoimmune diseases. They will receive the vaccine 

because they are at risk. Others do not need to do this.

Our scientists say that there is a rather wrong impression that children can easily carry corona virus. This is not the case, they also get sick and hard.

At the moment, we have another wave, which, most likely, will lead to the fourth quarantine 

in the country for the holidays. Among the sick are 13 children under the age of 18, one of 

them is in critical condition. And, as scientists say, the more infected children there 

are, the more complications there will be among them. "

Some developers have begun testing their vaccines for babies as well. For example, the 

American company Moderna, as well as Pfizer / BioNTech, have launched tests on children 

from six months old. On July 5, Russia launched clinical trials of the Sputnik V vaccine on 

adolescents from 12 to 17 years old. Volunteers are vaccinated with the same drug used for 

adults, but the dosage is ten times less.

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None of the vaccines showed massive severe side effects, but there were still isolated 

reports. For example, in the United States, a 13-year-old boy died after being vaccinated. 

After that, Singapore's pediatricians and cardiologists called on the authorities of their 

country, which also vaccinate adolescents, to suspend the campaign until all the 

circumstances are clarified.