This should be of interest to parents who are still skeptical. The Haute Autorité de Santé has given the green light Monday to open access to vaccination against Covid-19 to all 5-11 years. Normally, from December 22, all can therefore be vaccinated with the pediatric serum developed by Pfizer, knowing that the most fragile can receive their injection since Wednesday. But what is the point, when children very rarely develop severe forms?
A study, carried out by Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, suggests that vaccination could protect young people from PIMS.
No vaccinated adolescent hospitalized for PIMS
PIMS stands for pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome following infection with Covid-19. A disease that we have, for a time, compared to that of Kawasaki. According to
Public Health France, since March 2020, 800 children have done a PIMS. Among them, one patient died, and two-thirds of the children were hospitalized in intensive care.
According to the AP-HP, which published this study December 20 2021 in the medical journal
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 107 patients under 18 with PIMS were included in these observations. Of these, “33 were over 12 years of age (31%) and were therefore eligible for vaccination; 26 of them were not vaccinated, 7 had received one dose of vaccine, none had received two doses, the statement said. The majority were adolescents without co-morbidities. “
Conclusion? “The low proportion of vaccinated children hospitalized for PIMS suggests that the risk of suffering from it is very significantly reduced once a first dose has been received, and therefore shows the individual benefit of vaccination in adolescents”, advance the press release. Still, the study concerns very few adolescents. Furthermore,
according to the Haute Autorité de santé (HAS), symptoms of PIMS can be seen at any age, although they most often occur in children aged 4 to 11 years. The opening of vaccination to all children should make it possible to learn more about this issue and to confirm – or not – this encouraging news.