Virologists and pediatricians, experts in vaccines, have indicated that this fall Flu and Covid vaccination will not be widespreadsince both are “complementary” although they have “small differences”.
Thus, on the one hand, they recommend vaccinating against seasonal flu at “all” children between six months and five years, being the age group that suffers the most from this infection. And, on the other, they have indicated that the coronavirus vaccine will be directed only at “target populations”, those that present risk factors, such as age or previous pathologies.
This is how he explained it Raúl Ortiz de Lejarazu, scientific adviser and emeritus director of the National Influenza Center of Valladolidtogether with David Moreno, coordinator of the Covid Vaccination Program in Andalusia and vaccine adviser to the Spanish Association of Pediatrics, and Ignacio Salamanca, coordinator of the Studies and Research Unit of the Seville Institute of Pediatrics.
The three have appeared before the media on the occasion of their participation in the ‘IX Meeting for updating and new approaches in vaccines. Changes in vaccination programs after two years of the Covid pandemic, which is taught at the Menendez Pelayo International University.
The director of the Flu Center and the UIMP course has pointed out that unlike Covid, “the flu kills healthy children”since, depending on the severity of the virus and the condition it causes, each year between nine and fourteen children and adolescents die, without “half” of them presenting previous risk factors.