The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States has approved the coronavirus vaccine for children aged five to 11 years old.

According to a report published by the American newspaper "Washington Post", about 28 million children under the age of 12 years can now receive two doses of the vaccine within 3 weeks.

The newspaper report highlighted the most prominent points related to the vaccination of children under 12 years of age, as follows:

When will the vaccine be available for children 5-11 years old?

According to the Washington Post, vaccines have been available in the United States since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that children be given the Corona vaccine.

The White House said that the team responsible for giving vaccines to children between the ages of five and 11 years will begin to work at full capacity, starting on the eighth of this November.

"Parents will be able to take their children to thousands of pharmacies, pediatric clinics, schools and other locations for vaccination," US President Joe Biden said in a statement.

Is it the same vaccine given to children 12 years of age and older?

both.

Children ages 5 to 11 will get one-third of the dose given to teenagers and adults.

Pfizer said in a statement that the reduced dose was chosen "based on safety, tolerability and immunological data."

As with adults and teens, younger children will receive two doses of the vaccine at intervals of 21 days, and the Washington Post report indicated that the dose is fixed regardless of the child's height and weight.

Can a child between the ages of five and 11 get the Corona vaccine in conjunction with other vaccines?

Yes.

Corona virus vaccines can be given to children of the mentioned age regardless of the timing of other vaccines, and they may take it and other vaccines on the same day, but if the child is given several vaccines during one visit, the vaccines must be injected in different places of the body.

Should young children be vaccinated against corona?

Some parents wonder whether younger children need to be vaccinated against Corona, especially since children are often less severely ill than adults, and also given the decline in Corona virus infections in the United States and other countries, according to the newspaper.

The Washington Post said that about 1.9 million children in the United States between the ages of five and 11 have been infected with the Corona virus since the beginning of the pandemic, and that more than 8,000 of them were transferred to hospitals for treatment, and many of them were placed in intensive care, and 94 of them died, according to officials. US health sector.

How about worrying about the possibility that the vaccine could cause myocarditis?

The newspaper report notes that cases of myocarditis in adolescents and young adults who received the vaccination were rare.

The report quoted the two advisory committees of the Food and Drug Administration and the Center for Disease Control in the United States saying that the benefits of the vaccine outweigh the risks related to the rare myocarditis that it may cause, and the two committees voted unanimously in support of giving the vaccine to children aged five to 11 years.

The report indicated that since last October 27, more than 1,700 cases of inflammation of the heart muscle or inflammation of the outer lining of the heart associated with anti-Coronavirus vaccines have been reported among people aged 30 or younger who received the vaccine in the United States.

And the Washington Post pointed out that at least 220.9 million Americans have so far received at least one dose of vaccines against Corona, and that 54% of those aged between 12 and 17 years have received the vaccine, and 63% of people aged between 18 and 39 have received it. general.