![]() ![]() Vaccines, given in one- or two-shot doses, are very different from medicines that people take every day, potentially for years. What makes Goepfert think that scientists would not discover previously unsuspected problems caused by COVID vaccines in the years ahead? ![]() “A 90 percent decrease in risk of infections, and 94 percent effectiveness against hospitalization for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines is fantastic,” he said.īut what makes vaccine experts such as Goepfert confident that COVID vaccines are safe in the long term? We have all seen billboards and TV infomercials from law firms seeking people harmed by diet drugs or acid-reflux medicines for class-action lawsuits. (Photo by: Andrea Mabry) In his nearly 30 years studying vaccines, Paul Goepfert, M.D., director of the Alabama Vaccine Research Clinic at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has never seen any vaccine as effective as the three COVID vaccines - from Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson - currently available in the United States. That data is already in, and it is overwhelming. Around 50% of children have received their second dose.Ībout one in five children in the US have gotten their first COVID vaccine, according to data by the CDC.Many Americans say they want to “make sure the shot is safe” before getting vaccinated. Maccabi has vaccinated 44,300 children and another 34,000 have appointments for shots. So far, around 9% of Israel’s 5-11-year-olds are fully vaccinated, meaning they have had two shots in the last six months, although much higher percentages of children have had their first dose. Israel approved vaccines for children 5-11 shortly in late November, shortly after the United States. This is also the case when comparing vaccinated children to adults, the Maccabi data shows. Also, 18% of 11-year-olds experienced a headache, for example, compared to 8% of five-year-olds. Only 11% of five-year-olds missed a school day or activity. She noted that there are fewer side effects the younger the children are. Fewer side effects the younger the age group “One in four (26%) of 11-year-olds vaccinated with a second coronavirus vaccine dose missed a school day or afternoon activity due to side effects,” Reuveni said. Only 20% of children experienced similar side effects after the first shot. In addition, a third (33%) of children experienced general side effects, such as fatigue, headaches and general achiness. Miri Mizrahi Reuveni, director of the Health Division at Maccabi Healthcare Services in a briefing.Īccording to the report, 70% of children experienced pain at the site of injection – the same percentage who experienced pain after their first jab. “There were no unusual side effects,” said Dr. Notably, in the Israeli study, there have been no reports of myocarditis – a rare heart inflammation condition that was found to affect most young men between the ages of 16 and 30 in previous studies of those age groups. Two deaths reported in 5-year-olds with complicated health histories could not be directly linked to the vaccine. In the CDC study, there were 12 serious reports of seizure and 11 reports of myocarditis among the children enrolled in the CDC-FDA Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) – none fatal. A CDC expert group is meeting today to decide on implementation of the FDA authorization.Ĭhildren ages 5-11 did not experience any severe or unusual side effects after receiving a second dose of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, according to a report released Tuesday by Maccabi Health Services – one of Israel’s four national health funds. It also said that it would allow some children aged five to 11 who are immunocompromised to get a third shot, such as those who have undergone organ transplants. The findings also coincide with a US Food and Drug Administration announcement that it has expanded its approval of booster vaccines to kids aged 12- to 15-years-old. Tuesday’s report, by the Israeli Health Fund Maccabi covering more than 20,000 children, comes on the heels of a similar US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study of some 42,504 children that found nearly all side effects have been mild as well. ![]() Two new large scale reviews of the effects of the two-dose Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine in children aged 5-11 shows fewer severe effects than in older groups. A child receives a vaccine through the Maccabi Health Fund in Israel in December 2021. ![]()
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