People between the ages of 5 and 11 will be given the Pfizer vaccine and the dose will be 10 milligrams, one-third of the dose given to the adult population.
Israel’s Health Ministry has approved vaccinating minors between the ages of 5 and 11 with Pfizer and expects to start vaccination next week. The dose it will be 10 milligrams, one third of the dose administered to the adult population.
If the forecasts are met, Israel will receive a new shipment from Pfizer this Wednesday or Thursday, and in the next few days the medical teams will receive instructions on how to administer the vaccine.
The decision From Israel arrives a few days after the US Food and Drug Administration also authorize vaccination with Pfizer to minors from 5 to 11 years old.
Other countries like Argentina, Colombia or Ecuador they have already started vaccinating boys and girls. Colombia has begun to inoculate the Sinovac vaccine to children between 3 and 11 years old, Argentina administers the Sinopharm vaccine to boys and girls between 3 and 11 years old, and Ecuador has chosen to vaccinate the population between 6 and 11 years old with Sinovac. .
In a few months, Israel inoculated a large part of its population, out of a total of 9.3 million inhabitants, with two doses. This summer, it was the first country in the world to begin inoculating the general population with a third dose of Pfizer, and more than four million people have already been vaccinated with three injections.
Israel’s positivity rate does not reach 1%, there are just over 5,600 active patients and only 145 of them are seriously hospitalized.
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