{"id":143589,"date":"2021-11-03T15:11:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T15:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=143589"},"modified":"2021-11-03T15:11:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T15:11:33","slug":"2nd-covid-jab-doses-to-be-approved-for-16-and-17-year-olds-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/2nd-covid-jab-doses-to-be-approved-for-16-and-17-year-olds-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd Covid jab doses &apos;to be approved for 16 and 17-year-olds this week&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Britain&#8217;s Covid vaccine watchdog &#8216;will approve second doses for 16 and 17-year-olds this week&#8217;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) decision imminent<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Able to come for Pfizer jab 12 weeks after first &#8211; slightly longer than in adults<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s thought that around 55% of the 1.4million 16-17-year-olds have had one jab<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Second Covid vaccine doses will be approved for all 16 and 17-year-olds in the UK within days, it was claimed today.<\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s jab watchdog, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), is expected to announce the move this week.<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen and 17-year-olds will be able to come forward for their second Pfizer vaccine 12 weeks after having their first injection, if the plan goes ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Around 1.4m Britons in the age group were invited for their first dose in August but were not recommended for a second dose.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials were monitoring safety data in other countries over fears about a rare form of heart inflammation that is slightly more common after the second jab.<\/p>\n<p>A Whitehall source told the Independent\u00a0that the concerns have been alleviated and an announcement is due by the end of the week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>About 55 per cent of the 16 and 17-year-olds in England have taken up the offer of a first dose.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as schools return from half-term and there are concerns cases could start to creep up again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/11\/03\/14\/47479477-10161003-image-a-13_1635949594475.jpg\" height=\"524\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/11\/03\/14\/50007815-10161003-image-a-12_1635948835231.jpg\" height=\"403\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>About 55% of 16 and 17-year-olds in England have had their first Covid jab (shown in dark yellow, right) according to the UK Health Security Agency\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Daily infections have fallen nationally in nine of the previous 10 days which was initially believed to be due to children being out of the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>But a 17 per cent week-on-week decline yesterday has raised hopes that growing natural immunity in youngsters could keep infections at bay.<\/p>\n<p>Recently-published minutes from JCVI meetings show that &#8216;most of the benefits&#8217; of vaccination in 16 to 17-year-old are gained by the first dose.<\/p>\n<p>A source close to the discussions told MailOnline that about half of the cohort are believed to have already had Covid &#8211; which combined with a single jab offers &#8216;very strong immunity&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Healthy British children aged 12 to 15 will still only be offered a first dose of Pfizer&#8217;s vaccine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The US has already moved to jab even younger age groups, with five to 11-year-olds getting their Covid vaccines from today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/11\/03\/09\/49758139-10160043-Because_of_the_low_risk_of_severe_illness_more_than_one_third_of-a-12_1635933368695.jpg\" height=\"512\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Because of the low risk of severe illness, more than one-third of American parents with children in the 5-11 age range are not planning to get their kids vaccinated against Covid, a survey found<\/p>\n<h3>Pfizer&#8217;s Covid vaccines for kids aged 5-11 could start as early as TOMORROW in the US<\/h3>\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&#8217;s (CDC) advisory committee has officially recommended Pfizer-BioNTech&#8217;s Covid vaccine for children aged five to 11 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted unanimously that paediatric doses be distributed in this younger age group.<\/p>\n<p>It comes less than aw U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorised the shots for youngsters.<\/p>\n<p>Until the FDA announced its decision, ACIP was unable to recommend doses for children, a necessary step before pharmacists or clinicians can immunize kids.<\/p>\n<p>CDC director Dr Rochelle Walensky is not bound to follow the advisory group&#8217;s recommendations, but the agency rarely goes against the guidance of ACIP, and she is expected to sign off on the recommendations tonight.<\/p>\n<p>This means 28million children will likely be able to get vaccinated starting on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Parents have been split 50\/50 over vaccinating children because kids rarely get severely ill and make up less than 0.1 percent of all Covid deaths.<\/p>\n<p>And a member of the FDA advisory panel abstained from a vote on recommending the shot to kids last week because he said there is not enough evidence that all children need the shot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of No10&#8217;s vaccine advisers cautioned that it was &#8216;far too early&#8217; for the UK to follow the US.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Jeremy Brown, on the JCVI, argued there was a case for giving doses to vulnerable infants with medical conditions.<\/p>\n<p>But he said Britain&#8217;s medical regulator has yet to scrutinise data from the US to see whether the jab should be given the green light for any under-12s.<\/p>\n<p>US health bosses last night approved controversial plans to vaccinate children aged five to 11, piling pressure on the UK to follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>But England&#8217;s deputy chief medical officer, Professor Jonathan Van-Tam said a move to mirror America&#8217;s policy was &#8216;some way down the track&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Britain has so far limited its vaccine programme to healthy over-12s, after months of deliberating over the finely balanced risk-benefit ratio.<\/p>\n<p>The group, made up of some of the UK&#8217;s leading scientists, advised ministers against the move because children face such a tiny threat from Covid.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Critics say healthy children are better off catching the virus and getting protection naturally because the risk of being admitted to ICU with Covid is one in 500,000.<\/p>\n<p>The risk of getting myocarditis is around one in 10,000, but most cases are mild and treatable. However, the long term effects are not fully understood.<\/p>\n<p>And some studies suggest myocarditis is more common after Covid itself, which complicates the matter.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But a decision was made by UK&#8217;s chief medical officers to green-light the rollout to 12 to 15-year-olds to prevent further school disruptions.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether the UK should follow the US&#8217; lead on BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Today programme, Professor Brown said: &#8216;I think it is far too early to say that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;At present, the vaccine is not allowed to be given to children under 12 years of age in this country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And the MHRA, the regulatory authorities, have not looked at the data coming from the US as yet to see whether it can be approved for that age group.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Professor Brown, an expert in respiratory medicine from University College London, added: &#8216;I think there&#8217;s a case for using a vaccine on those children that have underlying diseases that make them more vulnerable to Covid, to having severe side-effects from the Covid infection. So that&#8217;s possible.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that the body&#8217;s decision to not recommend Covid jabs for healthy 12 to 15-year-olds was due to the consequences of Covid infection in that age group being &#8216;pretty mild&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Brown said: &#8216;Very few healthy adolescents [were] having severe problems and the same will be true for, in fact, probably more true, for the 11s and under.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So the clinical indication for the vaccine is low.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;In fact, the vaccine is being used mainly to protect people in education, to prevent them having to take time off school, and all that disruption that has occurred as a consequence of Covid infection.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8216;If we&#8217;re thinking about the future and where we need to vaccinate 11s and under for their educational benefit, it really depends on how prevalent the infection is at that time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It may be that we&#8217;re going through this large peak of infection at the present, but by the time it comes around to the vaccine being approved for under-12s, it may be that the infection rate in the community and amongst children is very low.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And therefore the need to protect them against the disruption effect of Covid infection on their education becomes much less.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10161003\/Britains-Covid-vaccine-watchdog-approve-second-doses-16-17-year-olds-week.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Covid vaccine watchdog &#8216;will approve second<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":143588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>2nd Covid jab doses &amp;apos;to be approved for 16 and 17-year-olds this week&amp;apos; 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