Vaccination helps protect against COVID-19 and no safety issues have surfaced after millions of children aged 5 to 11 around the world have been vaccinated, said Singapore’s Senior Minister of State (Ministry of Health), Dr. Janil Puthucheary. At a virtual press conference held on Dec. 14 by Singapore’s Multi-Ministry Taskforce, the committee managing the country’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Puthucheary said severe COVID-19 symptoms were rare for children, but they still risked hospitalization, oxygen supplementation, and ICU admission if they did get them. “We’re seeing about one or two cases of multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children,” he said. “About one to two cases every week since mid-October 2021. “And some of these children have required ICU care.” Puthucheary said a study of children aged 5 to 11 in the United States for the Pfizer-BioNTech/Comirnaty vaccine demonstrated a vaccine efficacy against symptomatic infection of 90.7 percent. Pediatric dosage for children …
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