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Clinical trials have not included children, so vaccinations for them may not arrive until the next school year, while adults may get theirs during the summer.
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The pandemic has many parents asking two questions: First, when can I get vaccinated?And secondly, when can my children get it?The answers are not the same: adults should possibly get vaccinated next summer, but their children will have to wait longer, perhaps much longer.
Thanks to Operation Warp Speed of the US government, the US government has not been able to do so. But it’s not the first time And other programs, several Covid-19 vaccines for adults are already in complex clinical trials, but trials have not yet been initiated in the United States to determine whether these vaccines are safe and effective for children.
“Right now, I’m pretty worried about not having a vaccine for young people during the next school year,” said Dr. Evan Anderson, a pediatrician at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and a professor at Emory University School of Medicine.
Many vaccines, in addition to those that oppose measles, polio and tetanus, were designed from the outset to be given to children; in such cases, vaccine developers would begin trials in adults to verify vital protection issues.
Only if researchers don’t notice any serious-looking effects will they start checking on young people, starting with teens and then dropping to younger ages. Vaccine developers are well aware that young people are not just miniature adults, their biology is different and can have effects on the functioning of vaccines.
These trials allow vaccine developers to adjust the dose to discharge the most productive immune coverage with the least threat of side effects. This procedure has proven to be incredibly effective.
When the pandemic occurred, some vaccine brands understood how to mix phases and gathered more knowledge over the same period. The result was a quick path to a vaccine. Nine months after the onset of the pandemic, dozens of Covid-19 vaccines arrived at clinical trials.
Dr. Anderson said vaccine brands may have started testing for young people during the summer, as soon as they had phase 2 smart effects in adults, but that didn’t happen, and every time those trials begin, it can take more than a while. year to prepare vaccines for young people.
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