Ethics Committee judges “acceptable” vaccination of 5-11

The CCNE claims specific vaccination channels and spreads “any constraint”, in particular the imposition of a healthcare for children.

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“Ethically acceptable.” It is with this regulatory formula that the National Ethics Advisory Committee (CCNE) has given its green light on Thursday, December 16, to the vaccination of all children of 5 to 11 years old. Seized by the Minister of Health, however, the CCNE arrogated its opinion of several limits and emphasized that it pronounced “in urgency and uncertainty”.

While last June, the Council had noticed the vaccination of adolescents aged 12 to 17 that at the end of the lips, the experts believe that “the epidemiological situation has changed”, as Alexandra Benachi said. , Head of the neonatalogy service of the Antoine-Bécleère de Clamart Hospital (Hauts-de-Seine), corapporter of the notice.

If the circulation of the virus in the population “questions the concept of group immunity as a means of controlling the epidemic”, the 6-10 year olds, which present the highest rate of incidence rate There is no less an essential vector of the circulation of the virus. “Child’s immunization coverage could significantly reduce cases of infection,” says CCNE’s opinion: 38% for 20% vaccine coverage, and “up to 75% if coverage reached 50%” , according to the modeling scenarios.

Learn from the vaccination of teens

In addition, vaccination of adolescents, launched this summer, delivered valuable information. The level of hospitalizations in them decreased this fall, compared in the fall of 2020. Conversely, it remained identical among young children. In addition, classes and institutions are infinitely more in schools than in colleges and high schools.

So is the name of the “individual benefit of the child” that the CCNE recommends the generalization of vaccination of 5-11 years. Direct medical benefit, first. Certainly the severe forms remain rare in children and first affect the small minority of children with comorbidities. But “the vast majority of critical care admissions and more than 50% of hospitalizations concern children without comorbidities.”

Vaccination also disappear in adolescents Pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndromes (PIMS), which sometimes occur after SAR-COV-2 infection. However, young children are the first victims. The second direct profit is to improve the school life of children and, by ricochet, their “mental health” and their “well-being”.

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