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August 26, 2021
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ns NHS A plan has been prepared to give Kovid vaccine to children below 12 years of age on their return to school, it came to light today.

NHS England owners told trusts yesterday to be ready to extend the roll out to children aged 12 to 15 in just two weeks’ time.

Health officials told that parental consent will not be needed for children to get vaccinated wire.

The UK’s medical regulator, the MHRA, has already said pfizer And Modern Vaccines are safe and effective for the age group.

But the Joint Committee on Immunization and Immunization (JCVI) – which advises No. 10 on jobs and is separate from the MHRA – has not yet given the green light to the plans.

It claims that the small risk of side effects may still outweigh the benefits because young children are unlikely to become seriously ill from COVID.

Leaked email shows NHS trusts in England have until 4pm on Friday to plan a rollout in children.

Britain’s daily COVID cases, hospitalizations and deaths have been rising slowly for weeks, raising the threat of a new wave of return to schools.

All 16 and 17 year olds are already being invited to the Pfizer vaccine and do not need a parent or guardian’s permission to receive it.

But only under-16s are being invited who live with weak people or who have weak immunity of their own.

The NHS is planning to vaccinate 12 to 15-year-olds in England, reports suggest.

Britain's national roll out has already vaccinated nine out of ten adults in the country

UK national roll out has already vaccinated nine out of ten adults in the country

The health department – which has sought a recommendation from the JCVI on forcibly apprehending children aged 12 to 15 – said a decision was yet to be taken.

Moderna and Pfizer have both been linked to myocarditis, a rare heart problem that affects one in 20,000 young people.

JCVI has claimed that the risk of heart inflammation still outweighs the benefits of COVID jabs for healthy under-16s.

School students to be tested for COVID twice a week when the words ‘to survive a new wave’ begin.

Ministers say parents should get their children tested for Kovid twice a week to prevent another wave in schools.

A new government campaign insists that all secondary schools must continue with routine testing or risk another winter of chaos.

Years 7 and older students will have two lateral fluency tests at three to five day intervals at school, and then take the twice weekly test at home.

But this system would be largely dependent on trust, with no feasible way for schools to check every student every week.

Ministers are launching a major advertising campaign today aimed at parents and teenagers, urging them to do their duty.

The campaign is led by ITV’s This Morning Star Dr. Ranj Singh and Olympian swimmer Matt Richards.

Jenny Harris, head of the UK Health Protection Agency, said: ‘It is important that we continue to ramp up testing in schools to help uncover hidden cases of the virus during this period.

‘We encourage children to come to school to have their first individual test and then continue testing twice a week from home.’

Health Secretary Sajid Javid said: ‘I urge parents to encourage their children to undergo regular tests, to help break the chain of transmission and prevent the virus from spreading.’

It is feared that the virus may spread again when schools return in the next two weeks.

It is closely monitoring data from the US, France and Canada, which have already routinely judged under-12s.

Moderna’s jab has been proven to be safe and effective and is expected to be offered to younger age groups such as Pfizer.

The AstraZeneca vaccine is not being recommended in the UK for people under the age of 40 because it has been linked to very rare blood clots.

NHS England regional offices emailed trusts tomorrow asking them to prepare a plan, reports wire.

They were told to have a plan ready by 4 p.m. on Friday, and to be able to start the first dose for the age group when they returned to school on 6 September.

The email revealed that the goal is to vaccinate three-quarters of children aged 12 to 15 by November 1.

They also state that children should be deemed ‘able to provide Gillick his consent’ on jabs. This refers to a 1985 legal ruling, which ruled that a teenage girl could obtain contraception without the participation of her parents.

JCVI has previously stressed that there is not enough data in this group to support a roll out. But the newspaper reports further research on this is about to be published.

The apex committee is indicating it may approve vaccines for secondary school children.

In July, he said: ‘The minimal health benefits of offering children universal COVID vaccination do not outweigh the potential risks.’

But just two weeks later, deputy chief medical officer and committee member Professor Jonathan Van-Tam said children aged 12 to 15 would be offered “a more likely rather than a lesser possibility”.

A health department spokesman said: ‘No decision has been made on immunization of children aged 12-15 and it is wrong to suggest otherwise.

Ministers are yet to receive further advice from the JCVI on this grouping. We continue to plan multiple scenarios to ensure that we are prepared for all events.’

According to population estimates from the Office for National Statistics, there are over 2.6 million children aged 12 to 15 in England.

The latest figures from the Department of Health showed that England had the highest COVID infection rate in the country with 15- to 19-year-olds infected with 929.7 cases per 100,000 people, or 107.

Children aged 10 to 14 had the fifth highest infection rate at 354.2 per 100,000, or one in 282.

The health department has divided the population into 19 different age groups to help monitor the COVID infection. People aged 20 to 24, 25 to 29 and 30 to 34 had higher infection rates than children aged 10 to 14.

It is not clear whether NHS trusts in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have also been asked to prepare immunization plans for secondary school children.

But the four countries follow the JCVI’s advice on which age people should get the Kovid vaccine.

It is also unclear whether children 12 to 15 years old can be offered two doses if the JCVI recommends that they be vaccinated. At present, only one job is being offered to 16 to 17 year olds.

A public health expert has said vaccine advisors in the UK are ‘very cautious’ when it comes to widening the jab roll, but it is ‘waiting and watching cost time’.

Devi Sridhar, professor of global public health at the University of Edinburgh, told BBC Radio 4’s Today program this morning: ‘I think the point is that they (JCVI) are very cautious.

‘They’re waiting and watching and I think the issue with a pandemic is that it takes time to wait and see.

‘And time is the currency now that matters because it’s not like we can wait and see and in six months say “Okay, it’s safe, let’s get vaccinated”.

‘In those six months if a large percentage of 12 to 15 year olds get infected, they have somehow lost a window of time and so I think they probably don’t realize that they should feel that way. An emergency situation and we have Delta, which is very contagious. I mean, it’s just flying through schools as we know it.

‘But not just here, places like Germany, Denmark, even New Zealand and Australia are battling the delta more than the original virus.’

What are the advantages and disadvantages of vaccinating children?

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protect adults

The main argument in favor of vaccinating children is to prevent them from transmitting the virus back to adults for a long period of time.

Experts fear there could be a spurt in cases among older people from unvaccinated children returning to classes in September, as immunity from the jabs passed on to older generations at the start of the year begins to wane.

If left unchecked it could trigger another wave of the virus, leading to higher hospitalizations and deaths during the summer with infection levels.

Avoiding covid for a long time in children

While most children have a low risk of serious infection with COVID, scientists are still unsure whether the virus can have a long-term effect on them.

Concerns have been raised, particularly about the long-term incidence of COVID – a less well-understood condition when symptoms persist for several weeks longer than usual – in youth.

A study released last night by King’s College London showed that less than two per cent of children who develop symptoms of Covid survive for more than eight weeks.

Of the 1,734 children studied, just 25 — 0.01 percent — suffered from symptoms for more than a year.

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health hazards

The extremely rare incidence of a rare heart condition has been linked to the Pfizer vaccine in puberty.

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Safety (CDC) in the US – where 9 million 12- to 17-year-olds have already been vaccinated – show that boys aged 14,500 to 18,000 are more likely to develop myocarditis. Is. After taking the second dose of the vaccine.

It’s a tiny bit to be missing. For comparison, the odds of seeing a four-leaf clover are one in 10,000, and a woman is three times as likely to have one in 4,478.

The risk is higher than in 18- to 24-year-olds (one in 18,000 to 22,000), 25- to 29-year-olds (one in 56,000 to 67,000) and people 30 and older (one in 250,000 to 333,000) Is. . . But, again, this is very little.

UK drug regulator MHRA has listed a rare heart condition as a rare side effect of Pfizer and Moderna Vaccines.

He said: ‘There have been very rare reports of myocarditis and pericarditis (the medical term for the condition) occurring after vaccination. These are generally mild cases and individuals recover within a short period of time after standard treatment and rest.

Data from the health body shows that cases of myocarditis caused by vaccines were four times more likely to be prevented from hospitalization in children aged 12 to 17 years.

Other countries should give jobs

Experts have also claimed that it would be better for teenagers in the UK to donate jabs to other countries where large numbers of vulnerable populations live without vaccination.

This would not only be a moral move but it is in the UK’s own interest as the virus will continue to be a threat to the UK as long as it has spread anywhere in the world.

Most countries around the world lag far behind the UK in terms of their vaccine rollouts, with countries in Africa, Southeast Asia and South America being particularly vulnerable.

Experts argue that the jabs could be used to vaccinate older people in those countries, and thus prevent the virus from being transmitted and spreading globally, compared to a modest advantage for transmission in the UK. Is. It will be seen whether the children are vaccinated or not.

Professor David Livermore from the University of East Anglia has said: ‘The limited vaccine supply will be used in countries and regions with large vulnerable elderly populations that are currently unvaccinated – Australia, Southeast Asia and Latin America. In America too. As in Africa.

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