The pediatrician: “Not vaccinating children exposes them to the lottery of risks”

The 12-19 age group is the least vaccinated against Covid in Italy, both in percentage and in absolute value. We have about 28% of non-immunized adolescents and, based on scientific data on vaccine prevention, in this age group there is a risk that thousands will fall ill with Covid and that a non-negligible portion will be hospitalized, with the risk some death also occurs. Not vaccinating is as if we were writing this condemnation “, exposing children to” a sort of ‘lottery’ of risk. “The pediatrician Italo Farnetani says it bluntly:” I believe it is necessary to make “anti-Covid” vaccinations such as others required by law. And I propose that in this age group they are carried out in schools. The same should be done when the vaccines will also be available for the smallest, for the 5-11 age group “, for which a response from the European drug agency Ema is expected in a couple of months. For the expert, Full Professor of Pediatrics at the Free Ludes University of Malta, it is important to bring vaccination to schools to “make it easier to administer and relieve parents who wish to have their children do it from organizational and logistical problems”, he explains to Adnkronos Salute. will reiterate this message also today at a conference on the prevention of Covid-19 in Mazara del Vallo, Sicily, promoted by the local Rotary club.