The health Secretary, Jorge Alcocer, told senators that the definition on vaccination against Covid-19 under 18 years of age in Mexico, as well as a third dose for the over 18 years I know will analyze from the first quarter of 2022.
During their appearance and before the questions, the senators of the PAN and the PRI, Xóchitl Gálvez and Sylvana Beltrones about why this population group does not join the National Vaccination PlanAs in other countries in the world, the official pointed out that the decision was made by a group of advisers linked to the World Health Organization (WHO).
“It is not that you want not to vaccinate. If you ask me, is your grandson vaccinated? Not at that age ”and that we are going to begin to define, just like the third dose that is also under discussion,“ from the following year, in the first trimester it is estimated to be 2022, it is not stupid, or anything else ”, said under the Gloss of the Third Government Report before the Senate Health Commission.
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He argued that we must wait for more information to be available to be able to vaccinate against Covid-19 to minors, as there is a risk of altering the normal development of the immune system.
“Children from 12 to 17 years old have the possibility clearly and biologically to have this defense, to give them a vaccine of which, except for one of the vaccines which is approved by the WHO, which is Pfizer, could have some limitation, nothing is going to happen to them, some limitation to their normal natural development of their immune system to face other diseases in the course of their lives, “he said.
Faced with criticism from opposition senators, he indicated that from the age of 25 the immune system changes and towards the elderly it decreases considerably, which is why the vaccination strategy sought to protect the elderly first.
“A vaccine produces antibodies and that is produced by the normal immune system in an individual who does not require the vaccine, at this time those who least require it are precisely children from 12 to 17,” said Alcocer Varela.
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