The former coordinator of the Honorary Scientific Advisory Group (GACH) Henry Cohen referred this Monday to vaccination in children (5 to 11 years old), an issue that was involved in back and forth since there is a group of pediatricians who reject said inoculation.
Specifically, interviewed in Channel 5 News Cohen agreed with the vaccination and assured that the vaccine has a 91% approval rating with “very few side effects.” “The risk of vaccinating is lower than the risk of not vaccinating,” he said. He also added that he supports the Uruguayan Pediatric Society (SUP) and rejects all kinds of threats.
On November 17, the SUP issued a statement recommending vaccination and a day later the Board of Directors of this company supported this resolution. However, the SUP Pharmacology and Therapeutics Committee concluded that “it does not consider appropriate to offer a vaccine approved for emergency use in children under 12 years of age,” according to the slogan. the daily.
The committee justified its statements by saying that the burden of the disease in children under 12 is “low”, that the vast majority of these patients experience the disease with asymptomatic infections and that the “risk of severity is not homogeneous”, but can be identified in higher risk groups, such as the immunosuppressed.
On other issues, Cohen said that the pandemic has been “under control” for more than two or three months, but stressed that the virus will continue and that it cannot be eradicated “for some time.” In this sense, he expressed that, the more they accept to be vaccinated and fold to the third dose ”, there will be better results.
Finally, the former GACH coordinator reported that he continues to be in contact with the Executive Branch and even confirmed that he had some meetings with the Secretary of the Presidency, Álvaro Delgado. In addition, he said that there is a WhatsApp group with government authorities called “transition” where they exchange scientific work, comments and opinions.
