Cristian Carlos. Peninsula 360 Press P360P.
Peninsula 360 Press announced the timely vaccination of children aged 5 years and older against COVID-19, a disease caused by the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that was initially identified in the central city of Wuhan, China in December 2019.
The vaccination will be carried out with the formula of Pfizer-BioNTech and that, in just the first day of application, it was reached to vaccinate a population close to 900 thousand infants between 5 and 11 years. Vaccination is one of the methods of prevention against COVID-19.
For this reason, front-line 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 the populations vulnerable to COVID-19 are the elderly, people with comorbidities or chronic diseases, disabilities and children.
Ethnic Media Services gave their space to speak in favor of vaccination for children between 5 and 11 years of age.
Dr. Monica Gandhi, professor of medicine and associate division chief of the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine at UCSF/SF General Hospital, said we are facing a new pathogen. And, she explained, while there is no such thing as herd immunity, it's better to think about "control" in terms of monitoring people's vaccination processes and alternative treatments for people who choose not to get vaccinated. Monica Gandhi suggests vaccinating as much of the population as possible and thus creating an immune level that is capable of keeping the presence of the coronavirus "at an all-time low".
On the other hand, Dr. Jennifer Miller, a pediatrician at East Bay Pediatrics said that "we are seeing the 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 in the general population, "it's something that concerns me," she said. He noted that the Halloween and upcoming Hanukkah and Christmas seasons are ripe for the spread of SARS-CoV-2. He called on the general population to continue to get vaccinated as one of the ways to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Maria Meraz, founder and director of the Parent Involvement Academy in Los Angeles, pointed to the avalanche of alternative information that could confuse people, resulting in parents opting for alternatives to vaccination. She stated that those opting not to vaccinate are low-income people who do not have access to cable TV and similarly do not have complete information about the treatments available to prevent COVID-19 infections. He rebuked the "chains of misinformation" spread via WhatsApp, Facebook and YouTube; "it's terrible," he said. "They don't know what's really going on," Meraz said.
The goal, Maria Meraz explained, is "to be able to share information aimed at parents and we need to send a unanimous message that encourages families to feel comfortable with vaccination" as a method of preventing COVID-19.
