Corona vaccination for children? First series of tests with AstraZeneca policy

Children are already vaccinated in the UK –
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HAMBURG – So far, vaccines have only been approved for people over the age of 16. What happens next and how vaccine manufacturers focus on children.

Experts still disagree on how children will affect the pandemic.

03.09.2020
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Experts still disagree on how children will affect the pandemic.

03.09.2020

Photo: Bildagentur Muehlanger via www.imago-images.de, NN
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Again Spiegel reports, a trial of AstraZeneca’s vaccine is starting in the UK in children between the ages of six and 17. 300 children should make the start. For the parents – whose consent is the prerequisite – the decision is likely to be a difficult trade-off, according to the news magazine. On the one hand, your children could be the first to receive long-term protection against the coronavirus, on the other hand, the agent has not yet been tested on children.

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For those responsible for the study, which is now starting, the advantage is obvious: “We could give children immunity and possibly strengthen them with an additional boost until the end of their lives,” said Sara Gilbert from Oxford University Timeswhose research team helped develop the vaccine and is now also supervising the study with children.

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In addition, Covid-19 could in rare cases lead to serious illnesses in children, emphasized the British pediatrician association Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. They would be better protected with a vaccination.

The pandemic may only ebb if children are vaccinated, after all, under 16s make up around 15 percent of the population in Germany.

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“If children and adolescents cannot be vaccinated, it actually means that the proportion of the rest of the population that needs to be successfully immunized increases accordingly,” says epidemiologist André Karch, deputy director of the Institute for Epidemiology and Social Medicine at the Medical Faculty in Münster opposite the news magazine.

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