Cristian Carlos. Peninsula 360 Press P360P.
Península 360 Press announced in a timely manner the vaccination of children from 5 years of age against COVID-19, a disease caused by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that was initially identified in the central city of Wuhan, China in December 2019.
Vaccination will be carried out using the Pfizer-BioNTech formula, and in just the first day of application, a population of nearly 900,000 children between the ages of 5 and 11 was vaccinated. Vaccination is one of the prevention methods against COVID-19.
For this reason, frontline workers discussed the advantages of vaccination in the child population and the measures that parents should implement to safeguard the health of this sector of the population, which is considered vulnerable due to its age.
We must remember that vulnerable populations to COVID-19 include the elderly, people with comorbidities or chronic diseases, disabilities, and children.
Ethnic Media Services provided its space to speak in favor of vaccination for children between 5 and 11 years of age.
Dr. Monica Gandhi is a professor of medicine and associate division chief of the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine at UCSF/SF General Hospital, said that we are facing a new pathogen. And she explained that, although herd immunity does not have to exist, it is better to think of a “control” that consists of monitoring people's vaccination processes and alternative treatments for people who choose not to get vaccinated. Monica Gandhi suggests vaccinating the population that can be vaccinated and thus create an immune level that is capable of keeping the presence of the coronavirus “at its lowest point.”
On the other hand, Dr. Jennifer Miller, a pediatrician at East Bay Pediatrics, said that “we are seeing numbers going up in California” when talking about recent COVID-19 infections. She said that despite having a good number of people vaccinated, cases of infection with the new coronavirus are rising at alarming rates among the general population, “it is something that worries me,” she said. She pointed out that the Halloween season and the upcoming Hanukkah and Christmas seasons are conducive to the spread of SARS-CoV-2. She called on the general population to continue getting vaccinated as one of the ways to prevent COVID-19 infections.
In another sense, Maria Meraz, founder and director of the Parent Engagement Academy in Los Angeles, pointed out the avalanche of alternative information that could confuse the population, resulting in parents opting for alternatives to vaccination. She stated that those people who choose not to vaccinate are low-income people who do not have access to cable TV and who, in the same way, do not have complete information about the treatments available to avoid COVID-19 infections. She condemned the "chains of misinformation" spread via WhatsApp, Facebook and YouTube; "it's terrible," she said. "They don't know what's really going on," said Meraz.
The goal, explained Maria Meraz, is "to be able to share information aimed at parents and we have to send a unanimous message that encourages families to feel comfortable with vaccination" as a method of preventing COVID-19.
