Even if this age group is less at risk than adults, serious illnesses also occurred in children and adolescents – more than 500 hospital stays were necessary. “We can spare the 12 to 15-year-olds that,” said Rudolf Schmitzberger, head of the K department for vaccination matters, in a broadcast on Thursday.
Vienna. The benefits far exceed the risk, explained Schmitzberger. “There is a vaccination approved for them that works extremely well – in this age group even better than in others – and has hardly shown any vaccine reactions worth mentioning.” Neither in the registration study nor in the millions of vaccine doses that have already been administered to twelve to 15-year-olds around the world, there were often severe consequences, it said in the broadcast. One should therefore follow the recommendations of the National Vaccination Committee and the Austrian Society for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
Another advantage of the Covid vaccination is that it should not be overlooked that the vaccination for children and adolescents largely enables carefree lessons and carefree maintenance of social contacts. “Children and adolescents have really suffered enough from this pandemic – they need their security and lightheartedness back. This vaccination can make it possible for them.” Another argument in favor of vaccinating young people is, in addition to individual protection, the establishment of community protection.
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