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Date Published: 26/11/2021

ARCHIVED - Spain delays vaccinating children under 11

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Vaccine experts in Spain have no immediate plans to administer the Covid jab to children

<span style='color:#780948'>ARCHIVED</span> - Spain delays vaccinating children under 11

After months of discussions and rising coronavirus cases across Europe, the European Medicines Agency gave the go-ahead on Thursday November 25 for children aged between 5 and 11 to receive the Pfizer jab, albeit at a lower dosage than their older counterparts.

However, just a day later, La Ponencia de Vacunas, the group of experts that decides the national vaccination strategy, has announced that there is no immediate plan to vaccinate youngsters given the high rate of double inoculations among the adult population (87.2% on Friday November 26).

“Children cannot be vaccinated for the benefit of the community,” Federico Montalvo, a member of the Vaccine Committee, stressed, adding that since the younger generation has proven particularly resilient against Covid, the vaccine is of no real benefit to them.

Even though clinical trials have shown that youngsters in general don’t tend to experience any different side-effects from the general population, such as nausea, headaches and muscle pain, the experts believe that Spain is in a good position to wait and see how the rest of the vaccination campaign transpires.

This country, with almost all of the target population protected, is very different from other nations who have decided to inoculate children, Mr Montalvo insisted, such as the United States. There, a huge proportion of people are still unvaccinated, a situation that poses a “serious problem” for the country.

Many communities are pushing for the vaccination of children since they represent the highest cumulative incidence rate in Spain, at 252 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, and the Spanish Paediatric Association has warned against “depriving” youngsters of the protection.

Nevertheless, while the expert acknowledged that everything can change in a matter of days, kids won’t be vaccinated any time soon, “because the benefits are not clear and the risk is minimal, practically zero.”

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