To this great increase, obviously and unfortunately, we must add the death toll, the great forgotten of this new wave. In just two weeks, 490 people have lost their lives due to Covid-19: only on Monday, 58.
75% of these new infections are occurring in the Seoul region, where more than half of the country’s 51 million inhabitants live.
With these data, the Government is preparing to reactivate social restrictions to alleviate the situation of hospitals, which face a maximum of seriously ill patients.
All are usually mild or moderate and do not pose a major health hazard.
Also remember that nearly 5 million doses of this pediatric immunogen have been administered in the United States and no serious adverse effects have been reported.
The infant formula does not require dissolution and the dose (10 micrograms) – identical for both a 5-year-old and an 11-year-old – will be exactly one-third that of adults (30 micrograms).
However, this month the agency plans to comment on Moderna’s pediatric vaccine.
“Now is the right time,” says Quique Bassat, pediatrician and epidemiologist at ISGlobal. “In September I would have said that there was no urgency to vaccinate children but now the situation is completely different and the group of children under 12 years of age has the highest incidence, with major outbreaks in schools,” he concludes.
Of course, the minors who are part of the risk groups will have priority.
In the event that the companion is a grandparent or other relative, an authorization must be presented.
Data that continues to grow day by day and that in this live we will be updating as they are published.
Clinical trials have shown that with less quantity an immune response is achieved very similar to that of the elderly.
Of course, this vaccine will be dispensed in vials different from those used for the adult population.
Good morning and welcome to minute-by-minute coverage of everything related to the coronavirus crisis in Spain and the rest of the world.
This Tuesday, December 14, we will focus above all on the beginning of the vaccination of children under 12 years of age in Spain.
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