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Recently, Mayo Clinic held a question and answer session about the COVID-19 vaccine and children.
Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse, a pediatric infectious disease expert, and Dr. Joseph Poterucha, a pediatric critical care specialist, answered questions from journalists about what parents should know, why children should get vaccinated and how to keep children safe as the vaccine awaits approval for their age groups.
Q: Why do we need to vaccinate children if theyâre not likely to develop severe illness or die from COVID-19?
Rajapakse: We know there are various, multiple benefits to children from vaccination both on an individual basis and also from a public health perspective. I think a situation like a pandemic is a really important situation to balance those benefits. While there have been relatively few, compared to adults, children who have needed to be hospitalized or who have died from this infection, there have been children who have died, over 300 in this country alone. â¦
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Fauci expects almost all children to be eligible for Covid-19 vaccines by first quarter 2022 at the latest
From CNN s Naomi Thomas
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies at a House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hearing in Washington, DC, on April 15. Amr Alfiky/Pool/Getty Images
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he thinks children of virtually any age should be able to be vaccinated against Covid-19 by the first quarter of 2022 and that people need to continue wearing masks.
Mass vaccination center in France forced to close after just 58 people turn up
From CNN’s Saskya Vandoorne in Paris
A closed vaccination center is pictured in Nice, France, on April 18. That facility closed on April 17, due to a lack of vaccine candidates. Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images
A mass vaccination center in the southern French city of Nice was forced to close early over the weekend after
58 people turned up for
4,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, a spokesman for the Alpes-Maritimes regional police told CNN.
Doses of the vaccine were offered to people aged over 55 who have jobs with a high Covid-19 risk such as teachers, police, prison guards, but the center was forced to close Saturday only hours after it opened.
COVID vaccines: where the bloody hell are we?
New AstraZeneca advice puts a spanner in the works, so what are our alternatives?
Australia’s vaccine rollout program is now being overhauled due to new recommendations regarding the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Based on the advice of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI), the Federal Government has recommended that people under 50 preferentially receive the Pfizer vaccine over AstraZeneca. This follows similar decisions made by regulators in Germany, Norway, Canada, the UK and other countries where the vaccine is being administered.
The recommendation comes after reports of serious side effects of blood clotting disorders, mostly associated with younger people.