Italy "Chinese Street" news: Now, children and adults over the age of 5 around the world have received vaccine protection, only children and infants under 5 years old do not, and today's large-scale infection has increased the proportion of young children hospitalized, because they have no obligation to force masks, there is no vaccine protection, young, weak, exposed to the new crown epidemic environment, it seems so weak. However, according to the latest news, Pfizer has submitted an emergency license to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Europe and Italy are also waiting for FDA approval, once approved by the US FDA, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Italian Medicines Agency (AFIA) will continue to go through the same procedure to review and approve, and it is expected that in the future, as early as April, it will be possible to vaccinate young children aged 6 months to 5 years old.
In December last year, Pfizer has conducted the first study of children aged 2 to 4 years, vaccinating them with two doses of 3 micrograms of the vaccine, and this time, Pfizer focused on giving the third dose of booster doses to children, hoping to vaccinate all children aged 6 months to 5 years. The company plans to get data for this age group in late March or early April. At the same time, Pfizer also said that researchers are studying a third dose of vaccine for children aged 5 to 11 years.
To date, in Italy, 1,188,971 children in the 5-11 age group have received at least the first dose of the vaccine (32.5% of the vaccinable population), while 505,931 children have completed 2 doses of vaccination cycle (13.8%), and 396,398 people have recovered from COVID-19, accounting for 10.84% of the population aged 5-11 years.
According to the survey, on january 31, 210 children and adolescents were hospitalized for COVID-19, of whom 113 were between the ages of 0 and 4 and 97 were between the ages of 5 and 18. In the intensive care unit, 10 out of 12 people are children aged 0 to 4 years.
It can be seen that today's new crown virus has spread strongly to low children, vaccines are the most effective weapon to prevent its erosion, and the proportion of children vaccinated by children aged 5 to 11 has increased significantly, and the hospitalization rate has begun to decrease significantly.
——Italian Chinese Street Editor (Chicken Doudou)