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Certainty of the vaccine against Covid-19 in children
Children 5 to 11 years of age who have received the Covid-19 vaccine showed reactions like adults and young people who received the same dose. However, arm pain, fever, and malaise are not as acute as in adults.
The application of the Pfizer vaccine was authorized by the United States government, in young children, after infants aged 12 to 17 years received the vaccine.
Around 5 million children, between 5 and 11 years old, have received the first dose since November. Government security oversight personnel have not detected any unforeseen problems.
This age group receives a small dose of Pfizer-BioNTech. Health personnel use it in children, compared to the dose applied to 12-year-old children.
The vaccine was licensed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), After a review it showed that pediatric servings were 91% potent in preventing symptomatic COVID-19.
The FDA evaluated the required safety of the dose given to 3,100 vaccinated children. The team assured that these were completely safe results, and given the large amount of results collected from the countless vaccines applied to adults and young people, around the world.
Unusually, several adolescents and adults, who received the immunization from Pfizer or a similar one from Moderna, developed a serious side effect, known as myocarditis or inflation of the heart.
It generally happened in boys and young men, after the second dose was applied. The recovery of these cases was rapid. The US health authorities assured that this was a small risk, but that the vaccine has great benefits.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were studying a small group of reports of inflammation of the heart, usually mild and brief, among children 5 to 11 years, from the beginning of immunization as young.
To understand the danger of COVID-19, among the sequelae of this disease is inflammation of the heart, said Dr. Matthew Oster, who is a pediatric cardiologist at Emory University.
Likewise, it sometimes happens that in children the multithematic inflammatory syndrome is generated, after contracting Coronavirus.
Doctors before the pandemic regularly tested children and young men for inflammation of the heart, the result of viral, bacterial or drug-related illnesses, on a regular basis.
After all these studies and their results, one of their conclusions is that youth and testosterone assume a fundamental role; For this reason, many people expect the side effects of the vaccine to be minimal in younger children after receiving the lower doses.
