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Higher Covid-19 vaccination rates among US children can prevent thousands of pediatric hospitalizations and millions of missed school days, according to analysis Published on Tuesday by the Commonwealth Fund and the Yale School of Public Health.
If school-age children were vaccinated with the updated Covid-19 booster with the same speed when they were vaccinated against influenza last season, from 50% to 60% of the coverage, at least 38,000 pediatric hospitalizations can be prevented, including about 9,000 stay in intensive care units until March. And if by the end of the year the Booster Covid-19 coating reached 80% among school-age children, more than 50,000 hospitalizations could be prevented.
Covid-19 hospitalization can help to facilitate the tension at pediatric hospitals that have been especially full of the last few weeks, since the season of respiratory viruses-impressive influenza, RSV and Covid-19-19-outputs earlier than usual. Less than 1 of 4 pediatric hospital beds are available throughout the country, including less than 10% of beds in seven states, according to data From the Ministry of Health and Social Services of the United States.
“The dummy healthcare system means that some families may not be able to get the care of the child for emergency medical care,” – r -r Moira Shilagi, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, wrote In the article CNN Opinions, calling the situation a “crisis.”
Covid-19 transfer is now much lower than at the beginning of the year; According to centers for the control and prevention of diseases, less than 5% of the US population lives in the district, which has a high level of the COVID-19 community. But more than 2400 children were placed in a hospital with Covid-19 last week, three times higher than a week, CDC data show
The new analysis also found that higher vaccination performance can help keep children at school, that, as other studies discovered, can have an important effect on Mental health And Academic achievementsField
Assuming that the five-day period of isolation for children with mild illness and 10 days for those who are hospitalized or very much ill are very ill, bring Covid-19 booster in accordance with the shots of influenza for children, can prevent more than 22 million days at school.
But the scenarios presented in a new analysis are quite unrealistic. Until now, less than 5% of school children have their updated booster, according to CDC dataField
In the first week of November, a record number of updated Covid-19 booster was controlled, and US officials say that they plan to push people to ensure that people are increased against the Covid-19 to offer maximum protection around thanksgiving, but in general the absorption remains low. To get to 50% by the end of the year, vaccination should be at least 10 times faster than in November.
And the covid-19 vaccination indicators have long behind the children from adults. Only 32% of children aged 5 to 11 years and 61% of them aged 12 to 17 years old competed in their original Covid-19 vaccination series compared to 78% of adults.
“Accelerated vaccination campaigns, which reach high coverage at all ages, can prevent a possible inevitable surge in Covid-19, protecting children both directly and indirectly, and providing them with additional stability in terms of the attendance of the school and other social interactions,” the authors of the study writes. “The cost of inaction can be cool: there are more millions of days at school and thousands of preventive hospitalizations for children.”
For this analysis, researchers did not take into account the possibility of a new version of coronavirus with immunity.
