The Academy of Medicine is calling on parents to ‘not hesitate’ to vaccinate children aged 5-11 years

The Academy of Medicine has just announced that there should be “no more hesitation” about vaccinating its 5- to 11-year-olds.

Although Omicron appears to be less dangerous than other variants, its rapid spread to the world’s population tends to pose certain risks. Indeed, more and more specialists indicate that the massive distribution of Omicron can lead to new variants, which in particular may be more virulent. Therefore, theThe Academy of Medicine just contacted parents of children aged 5-11 to me ” no longer hesitate » to do Vaccination against the virus COVID-19.

We should no longer “hesitate” to vaccinate children aged 5-11 years

in one joint statement, the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Medicine came to ask the French to get a large-scale vaccination in order to achieve mass immunity as quickly as possible and avoid the emergence of a new type of Covid-19. In detail, the two companies came to encourage parents to ” no longer hesitate » To vaccinate their children aged 5 to 11 years.

In the face of the incipient essence of the pandemic, particularly across the Omicron variant, the Academies explained that “ As in the United States, this phenomenon is accompanied by a significant increase in daily hospitalizations of children: during the second week of 2022, 979 children aged 0 to 9 years were hospitalized (source GEODES), nearly 80% of them They have no co-morbidities, and 9 deaths have occurred since January 1 (Source GEODES) ».

In addition, scientific communities explain it Percentage of children in hospital for covid » Still the majority And ” Includes a large proportion of pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndromes (PIMS) with delayed onset in relation to infection (after 3 to 12 weeks) generally attributable to a delta variant They also confirm that low vaccination coverage of children aged 5-11 years exposes them to a high level of circulation of the Omicron variant. It should also be noted that the efficacy of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has been confirmed for this age group. Through realistic studies, American and Israeli, now involving more than 10 million children ».

In conclusion, the specialists consider the risk / benefit ratio to be favorable on an individual level, since it limits serious forms. In addition, the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Medicine states that this also represents that vaccinating children has group benefits in several areas (school, family, mental state, social, etc.), but also enhances herd immunity.