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The vaccination of children between 5 and 11 years will start on December 15.

This was agreed yesterday by the Public Health Commission, whose recommendation was expected.

According to

, who was in Brussels yesterday in a meeting with the rest of the European Health Ministers, the autonomous communities will be in charge of deciding the specific modality for the administration of vaccines, choosing between health centers, vaccination centers massive or schools.

Spain will receive 1.3 million childhood vaccines in December and another 2 million vaccines in January to vaccinate the 3.3 million children in our country in the 5 to 11 age group.

40% of the planned doses would therefore arrive in mid-December.

And 60% already in 2022, in January.

Children will receive the

(from Pfizer), a product that will be dispensed in different vials than those used for the adult population.

Regarding the second dose, the Public Health Commission “at the request of the Vaccine Report, decided that

, to help increase the immune response, as well as to have everyone vaccinated minors between 5 and 11 years in a short space of time with at least one dose, "the Ministry of Health reported yesterday.

Initially, the vaccination campaign was scheduled to begin on the 13th, as announced by Minister Carolina Darias last week after the Interterritorial Health Council held in Córdoba, although

finally

and

as agreed at yesterday's meeting.

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The approval of vaccination against Covid in children aged 5 to 11 in Spain was, for many, a highly anticipated announcement since last November 25, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) publicly recommended this indication of immunization in the smallest. «It is important to vaccinate them. Children are a fundamental part of society.

"Manuel Franco, a professor at the University of Alcalá and spokesman for the Spanish Public Health Society (SESPAS), said yesterday, after hearing the Health decision, reports Laura Tardón.

"As we have always said, with the delta variant, to achieve group immunity,

and this implies precisely the vaccination of minors", agreed Joan Caylà, member of the Spanish Epidemiology Society ( SEE) and president of the Barcelona Tuberculosis Research Unit Foundation.

Also the coordinator of the Vaccine Advisory Committee of the Spanish Association of Pediatrics (CAV-AEP), Francisco Álvarez, positively valued yesterday the decision of Public Health to vaccinate children between 5 and 11 years from December 15. Once there is "a safe and preventive method, it is ridiculous to take risks," reports Efe. Álvarez pointed out that with the "good data" obtained from clinical trials, it was difficult for the Public Health Commission, meeting this Tuesday, to make a decision otherwise, and recalled that now the clinical trials of children under 5 years of age who "They are underway but not finished."

For Amós García-Rojas, president of the Spanish Vaccination Association, “the decision taken by the Public Health Commission is in accordance with the document prepared by the vaccine presentation, which understands that in this scenario of the pandemic, with a high presence of cases in the age group between 5 and 11 years, it

. Somehow the weight of the pandemic is advising him.

Vaccination in children, say the experts consulted, should be done "

That is to say, first, the most vulnerable children, those with previous conditions, which will be very few, and followed by children who live with elderly or vulnerable people.

It should be done from higher to lower risk ».

Although Covid has proven not to be a disease that causes serious illness in most children, immunizing the youngest will not only prevent anecdotal cases of complications, but also community transmission, in such a way that the control of the pandemic and normalization of life in all age groups.

The experts in Public Health and Pediatrics recalled, however, that we are facing a global pandemic, so it is a

, prioritizing vulnerable people.

In many places, immunization rates remain negligible, they lamented.

Administration of vaccines

Autonomous communities such as Castilla y León demanded since last week to know in more detail the cadence with which the vaccines will arrive in order to schedule the reservation of second doses and decide with more certainty if a mass vaccination in specific vaccination centers or if, for the less availability of vaccines, the best strategy would be a staggered one in schools.

Autonomies such as Galicia have advanced since they will vaccinate minors in

as soon as they begin to receive childhood vaccines, which will be distributed to the autonomies in proportion to the number of children to be vaccinated they have. Madrid, which warned last week that the 150,000 vaccines it will receive from the 13th will not be enough for its entire child population, nor does it plan to vaccinate in schools but in hospitals and will open the self-appointment process from the 15th.

Communities such as Murcia, Asturias or Catalonia have also already ruled out vaccination in schools and, in the absence of specifying the technical details, they

.

Others such as Andalusia, who had initially considered vaccinating in schools, announced last week their intention to finally do so in health centers due to the proximity of Christmas dates, the closure of schools and the possibility of taking advantage of the health device already deployed for influenza .

As detailed by the Ministry of Health, the decision to vaccinate children over 5 years of age has the objective of "reducing the burden of disease in this group," while those under 12 years of age are the population group with the highest cumulative incidence of Covid cases.

But vaccination in children will also be aimed at stopping "transmission in the family environment, in educational centers and in the community."

In this sense, the Public Health Commission stressed "the importance of protecting minors of these ages not only from the disease in its acute facet, but also from possible future conditions and from the persistent Covid syndrome."

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