Israel plans to include children over the age of 12 among the groups receiving COVID-19 vaccines by March if research shows that its safe, a top health official in Israel made this clear on Tuesday.
Israel also plans to cover over 60 percent of the citizens in the administration of the vaccine before the end of March to attain a world record pace In eradicating the deadly corona virus disease, so that the country’s economy can retake is position.
Nachman Ash, national coordinator on the pandemic, said that “pharmacological research would establish that the minimum age threshold for the vaccines could be safely lowered from 16 to 12, and FDA approval for such use secured, by March.
The fact that children under the age of 16 are not currently getting vaccinated is certainly troubling, in terms of the ability to achieve herd immunity,”.
He also said “I reckon that, in another month or two, there will be another cohort - the aged-12 and higher - that we can vaccinate.”
“Around 7.75% of Israel’s population are between the ages of 12 and 16, according to Central Bureau of Statistics data”.
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