Vaccination of children against Covid-19: what schedule for 5-11 year olds? – LCI

After the teenagers, it’s time for the children. Faced with the surge in Covid-19 cases in 6-10 years, with an incidence rate of 955 per 100,000 as of December 3, the government announced on Monday the acceleration of the vaccination which had so far been reserved only for ages 12 and over. When will the campaign start? Who exactly are the children concerned? Here is the vaccination schedule for 5-11 year olds.

First, from December 15, only 5 to 11 year olds at risk of developing severe forms of Covid-19 will be able to be vaccinated. Concretely, these are children suffering from co-morbidities or living in the entourage of fragile people.

In detail, the High Authority for Health (HAS) considers children suffering from “of a chronic liver disease, chronic cardiac and respiratory disease, neurological disease, obesity, diabetes, primary immunodeficiency or even with trisomy 21. “

The Minister of Health and Solidarity invited, Monday at a press point with Prime Minister Jean Castex, “parents (to) contact their doctor, their pediatrician, to find out if their child falls into this category.” At least 360,000 young people aged 5 to 11 could be eligible for vaccination, reports the HAS.

For the others, i.e. 6 million children aged 5-11, the executive plans to expand immunization from December 20, subject to the advice of health authorities and the National Ethics Council before the end. of the year. “We organize all the logistics (…) so that when the time comes, we can start vaccinating (them) without delay”, affirmed, Monday, Olivier Véran. “In practice, it could start around December 20 for vaccination centers, December 27 for city medicine and pharmacies”, he added.

In short, from January, vaccination should open, without obligation, to all children aged 5 to 11 years. In the meantime, according to data from Public Health France, 3,940,605 children and adolescents, aged 12 to 17, have received at least one dose of the vaccine. They are part of the 51,971,769 French people who have already reached out at least once.