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Canada should roll out second doses as soon as possible : NACI
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NACI approves Pfizer vaccine for youth 12 to 15 years old
by Lucas Casaletto
Posted May 18, 2021 4:41 pm EDT
A vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is shown at a UHN COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Toronto on Thursday, January 7, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
The National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) is confirming they believe it is safe and effective to offer the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to adolescents.
Health Canada authorized Pfizer for kids between 12 and 15 years old on May 5, after the company completed a clinical trial which found it was safe and 100 percent effective at preventing kids in that age group from getting COVID-19.
The NACI problem and how to fix it
The volunteer panel is dispensing crucial vaccine advice meant to keep Canadians safe and healthy. But NACI desperately needs to do better on the national stage.
May 17, 2021 People wearing face masks line up to enter a COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Toronto on May 5, 2021. (Zou Zheng/Xinhua via ZUMA Press)
Monika Naus once spent an entire summer vacation reading through a final draft of the Canadian Immunization Guide. Back then, Naus was chair of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI), a panel of doctors and scientists that offers recommendations on vaccine usage to a constellation of health-care providers across Canada. Naus’s workload could be daunting, in part because the committee had little administrative support. Still, she volunteered her time for more than a decade and chaired NACI from 2003 to 2007.
Even at the best of times, mixed messaging on COVID-19 vaccines is problematic. Photo by Phil Roeder / Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
For months, the doctors and public health experts at Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) were clear: take the first vaccine you’re offered. But now, in the wake of new data about an extremely rare complication called vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia blood clotting, essentially those experts have changed their tune.
Instead of getting the first jab that’s available, they now advise Canadians to wait for an mRNA vaccine from Pfizer or Moderna if they can, and if they live in a place where COVID case counts are low enough that waiting isn’t dangerous. “This needs to be an informed consent,” NACI chair Dr. Caroline Quach-Thanh said during an appearance on CTV’s
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