What issues should be paid attention to when minors get the new crown vaccine

What issues should be paid attention to when minors get the new crown vaccine

◎Reporter Zhang Jiaxing

At present, China has successively carried out the new crown vaccination work for people aged 12-17.

At the press conference of the State Council’s Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism held on August 13, Wang Huaqing, chief expert on the immunization program of the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that the awareness of children infected with the new crown virus has been constantly updated.

The harm of the new crown virus to children is constantly refreshing

"Previously, the knowledge of the new crown virus believes that the incidence and prevalence of the new crown virus for children are not high, but as the epidemic continues to spread, especially in some countries with more severe epidemics, the prevalence of children is rising.

Children do not have special resistance to the new coronavirus

A previous retrospective study led by the University of Milan, Italy even showed that the first new coronavirus nucleic acid positive sample collected on September 12, 2019 came from an 8-month-old child, and his serum antibody test was also positive.

It can be seen that in the early stage of the spread of the new coronavirus, it has been able to infect children

Wang Huaqing also updated another previous cognition

Vaccination of minors should prevent psychological reactions

According to He Qinghua, the first-level inspector of the CDC of the National Health Commission, according to the overall deployment of COVID-19 vaccination, various provinces have successively carried out COVID-19 vaccination work for people aged 12-17.

He Qinghua specially reminded that minors' mental development is not perfect and they are prone to psychogenic reactions.

Wang Huaqing said that psychogenic reactions are not adverse reactions, but because they are in adolescent development period, psychogenic reactions are more likely to occur

In addition, minors between the ages of 12 and 17 need to be accompanied by their parents or guardians to vaccinate against the new crown

Parents and guardians also have an important task, which is to reduce the occurrence of psychogenic reactions

Monitoring shows that abnormal reactions such as allergies are rare

So, what is the adverse reaction of the new crown vaccine to the younger 12-17-year-old people?

China has established an adverse reaction monitoring platform to monitor and analyze the adverse reactions of the new crown vaccination

According to the official website of the National Health Commission, as of August 14, 2021, 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps have reported a total of 1,853,839 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine