One hundred children have received the dose of vaccine of coronavirus dissolved in water. It’s about a error that has taken place in the El Alisal health center in Santander, whose rulingIt has no implication or adverse effect on health.”, According to accounts from the Ministry of Health to Europa Press.
What happened?
The facts were produced on last December 18 and the error occurred at the time se diluted the vaccine with “water for injection, instead of physiological saline”. Health has ensured that this error no adverse health effects, although this does mean that there is no “certainty” that the doses inoculated to these hundred children are effective.
In this sense, the Cantabrian Health Service has already been put on contact with families of the children affected by this error, to offer them a “serology” Y to check, So, “whether antibodies have developed” or not.
Vaccination of children between 5 and 11 years
The government from Spain approved expand the vaccination against the coronavirus to children between 5 and 11 years old on December 7, and started the campaign on the day 15 of the same month. Health estimated that more than 3 million children could receive the Pfizer vaccine adapted to their age. This serum contains one-third the dose used for adults. In addition, it was indicated that this age group would be given the injection in two doses eight weeks apart between the two inoculations.
Coronavirus situation in Cantabria
The situation of the coronavirus in the hospitals of Cantabria improved yesterday compared to the previous day, since there were fewer admitted to the plant, 206, of which 23 they were in the FIA (also with fewer patients). Nevertheless, four more people died, all of them vaccinated and older than 70 years.
In total, they reported 1,878 infections, and the cumulative incidence at 14 days fell to 4,149 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and seven days it stood at 2,003. Since the pandemic began, 696 people have died with the disease.
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