There are criteria and conditions for the COVID-19 vaccine for children. But do children need to be vaccinated? What is the effect if the child is vaccinated against corona virus? This question is very reasonable because many countries promote vaccinations for children over 12 years of age.
Vaccination of children ages 12-17 usually involves schools to help children get vaccinated. When a child with COVID-19 is for children usually rely on the school that helps the registration process.
Why children are vaccinated against COVID-19, this is because cases of transmission at a young age have increased recently, although the number of cases tends to start to decline.
Conditions for children to be vaccinated against COVID-19
The conditions for the childhood corona vaccine with Sinovac are not much different from those of adults, i.e. the body must be in a healthy state when to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Make sure your child is not vaccinated when they have a fever or are unwell.
Criteria that must be informed to the doctor if you want to get Sinovac vaccine for children:
1. The child has TB
2. Children with asthma
3. Children with blood diseases
4. Children with heart disease
5. Children with HIV
6. Children with other comorbid diseases
7. Malnourished children (malnutrition).
Should children be vaccinated against COVID-19?
So far, research from the Ministry of Health says that corona vaccinations for children tend to be safe and the reactions experienced are usually mild.
In addition, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also recommends that children 12 years of age and older be vaccinated.
Children 12 years of age and older are eligible for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
Is it safe for children to be vaccinated against COVID-19?
Launching Nature, the COVID-19 adolescent vaccine is likely safe. Several other countries also immunize children with the COVID-19 vaccine.
Research on the safety of vaccines for children is of great concern to some scientists. The potential link between the Pfizer vaccine and heart inflammation - a condition called myocarditis and pericarditis - has emerged since Israel and the United States began vaccinating young people. However, researchers have not yet proven that vaccines cause inflammation.
“A large number of those affected have recovered, and data show that the risk of this condition is very low,” said pediatrician David Pace of the University of Malta at Msida.
Precisely, there are about 67 cases per million of the second dose in boys aged 12-17 years, and 9 per million in girls in the same age group.
The data show that children and especially adolescents can play an important role in coronavirus transmission, said Catherine Bennett, an epidemiologist at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. Moreover, concerns about transmission by children and adolescents are increasing as new variants of the corona virus emerge.
There is a possibility that variant mutations are more contagious, so Bennett thinks coronavirus vaccination for children is becoming increasingly important.
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