Since Spain began to ‘deploy’ its Covid-19 vaccination strategy for childrenthere were several concerns that were discussed among health professionals about the possible Adverse effects that the sera could generate the children. The pericarditis and myocarditis These are two of the pathologies that have caused the most concern, although, according to what they say in the specialty, there has not been a higher incidence of this type of disease among the child population. “In children we have not seen an increase in cases,” he comments to this newspaper Fernando Ruedapediatric cardiologist at the University Hospital A Coruña (Galicia).
The scientific community has studied this scenario, emphasizing in one of its investigations published in the scientific journal medRxiv at the beginning of the year 2022 that the myocarditis can be contracted from Covid-19 as an adverse effect of the vaccine. In Spain, the vaccination process was extended to the child population in December 2021, one year after starting to vaccinate the population most at risk.
After a year and a half of that scenario, the cardiology community has not identified a ‘striking’ trend in terms of the incidence of these diseases generated by substances from pharmaceutical companies. An absence of cases supported by studies of US health agencieswhich throughout the pandemic have ‘set’ the pace of Western action.
One of those reports, dated December 2022 and prepared by the Center for Disease Control (CDCfor its acronym in English), stressed that among children aged 5 to 11 years, 98 percent of people suffered mild effects. In addition, the document specified that of eight million vaccinated American children, only in 12 cases was myocarditis identified as a consequence of the vaccine. The agency stressed that the serious side effects in children such as myocarditis are “extremely rare”.
According to data from Ministry of Healthas of May 26, 2023, the 47.6 percent of children between the ages of 5 and 12 have received the full vaccination schedule against Covid-19. The percentage goes up to 57.3 percent referring to the child population that has received at least one dose. Also, the 19th Pharmacovigilance Report on Covid-19 Vaccines emphasizes that until December 31, 2022 a total of 4,852,543 people under 18 years of age have been vaccinated in Spain. On the other hand, the report of the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (amemps) includes that up to that same date they have identified 84,650 adverse cases after vaccination inoculation. Of this total, 2,052 correspond to those under 18 years of age, that is, the 2.4 percent of the cases.
Vaccines against coronavirus in children under 5 years of age
In December of last year, 2022, the Public Health Commission of the Ministry of Health approved the recommendation of the pediatric covid vaccine for children between 6 and 59 months that they were in “risk conditions”. The health authorities stressed that the efficacy of vaccines against Covid-19 to prevent death was high in children and teenagers.
But although the Spanish cardiologists are not noticing a significant increase in cases of myocarditis or pericarditis among vaccinated children, from the Spanish Society of Cardiology (SEC) yes they are developing a record to try to count how many cases of these types have occurred in Spain, as you have learned Medical Writing.
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2023-08-05 10:33:31
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