Why are you for or against vaccinating young people?
Christiane Thiele: “Because young people actually say on their own initiative that they want the vaccination. Many are also afraid of passing the disease on to people at risk. There are young people who no longer meet their grandparents, even if they have already been vaccinated. And that’s where I think it is important to be able to take away the fears of the young people. “
Burkhard Rodeck: “Many children and adolescents go through the disease asymptomatically and have few symptoms. So self-interest is not in the foreground – in the foreground is the benefit of others for our entire society.
How do you rate the safety of the vaccine in this context?
Thiele: “I trust our European approval bodies like that EMA. I think we’re here in the ME have a good security system and if the EMA allows the vaccine, I assume that it is safe. “
Rodeck: “We have experience from a registration study of 1,131 children, and that with a newly designed vaccine. We consider this vaccine to be fundamentally safe, but the data situation is still a little thin at the moment, so we are a little cautious about the general vaccination recommendation. “
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