Vaccine for children arriving in December: no obligation, no green pass

• Vaccine 5-11 years, Palù: "From Monday we could have it in Italy"

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November 25, 2021 The ruling of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on the anti-Covid vaccination for children aged 5-11 - an audience of about 4 million in Italy - could arrive, earlier than expected, already today: at that point, the decision of the Italian Medicines Agency (Aifa) will follow closely and vaccinations will be able to start after the delivery of pediatric doses, reduced compared to those of adults, by the Pfizer company in the third decade of December. Health Minister Roberto Speranza, who invites families to have faith in doctors and pediatricians, indicates the stages in the extension of the vaccination campaign to children.

At the moment, the hypothesis of mandatory vaccination and green pass for children is excluded. "The first step - explained Speranza at the press conference after the CDM that gave the green light to the decree on the super green pass - is Ema's approval of the Pfizer vaccine for children in the reduced dose. Already today or later. this week. Then Aifa will decide with an opinion aligned with Ema and then we await

. In the meantime - the minister announced - we will launch a communication campaign and the indication we will give will be to listen to pediatricians and doctors ".

For the little ones, however, the Undersecretary of Health Pieropalo Sileri specified, "

". The issue of the vaccination obligation for children, however, remains open and the Aifa president, Giorgio Palù, notes that" when we talk about the anti-Covid vaccination obligation for children, the risk-benefit ratio must be weighed and I would consider it carefully , such as mandatory vaccination for other categories. So if the obligation must be generalized it is a careful risk-benefit assessment but this is in keeping with the trend of the epidemic. It is an assessment that will be made progressively, "he said.

The Italian Society of Pediatrics reiterated the opportunity and benefits of the anti-Covid vaccination also for the age group 5-11. The first monitoring in pediatric hospitals by the Federation of Fiaso healthcare companies has also made it possible to count 16 small hospitalized patients to date.

, average age 3.5 years.

Two boys were 11 years old and both were unvaccinated.

Children in Italy "continue to present a less serious picture than adults, but may need hospitalization up to, in very rare cases, require intensive care treatment. 

Meanwhile, the World Health Organization has published new guidelines" Living guidance for clinical management of Covid-19 ", which indicate the use of corticosteroids in hospitalized children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome, the most feared and serious consequence of Covid-19 among the youngest.