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Mayo Clinic doctors discuss COVID-19 vaccines for children; Breastfeeding passes on vaccine antibodies

 Mayo Clinic pediatric experts met on Wednesday, April 14, to discuss some questions that parents have surrounding COVID-19 vaccines for children under the age of 16. Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse, pediatric infectious diseases expert at Mayo Clinic, and Dr. Joseph Poterucha, pediatric critical care specialist at Mayo Clinic Health System in La Crosse, led the discussion. If children tend to be less likely to develop severe illnesses from COVID-19, why do we need to vaccinate them? “While there have been relatively few, as compared to adults than 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,” Rajapakse said. 

Kids are going to be the key to get to herd immunity, Mayo experts say

Pediatricians welcome news of 100% Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine efficacy in children 12-15 3:36 pm, Apr. 14, 2021 × Daniel Schludi/Unsplash ROCHESTER, Minn. With Pfizer having provided regulators strong preliminary data for the effectiveness of their COVID-19 vaccine in children ages 12-15, pediatricians have set a goal of full vaccination of the group in time for school in the fall. In late March, the company released results from a trial of 2,260 adolescents, a study that found 100% efficacy in preventing symptomatic infection in children 12-15, and robust antibody responses and said the intervention was well tolerated. The Food and Drug Administration is reviewing those data to make a determination on an Emergency Use Authorization for the population, one that could come shortly. Trials are also under way for effectiveness of the vaccines in very young children. Pediatricians expect those results won t be ready until 2022, however.

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