The Health Council, in an advisory to the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports, said that booster vaccination for all children between the ages of 12 and 17 does not provide adequate health benefits. Boosters should be possible to protect children with a severe immune disorder or vulnerable family members, the council writes.
The Council emphasizes that booster vaccination in children 12 to 17 years of age provides only very limited health benefits, even for the vulnerable group. “When vaccinated adolescents have omicron infection, it is generally mild and the risk of hospitalization is low,” the press release said.
The risk of the inflammatory disease MIS-C after an Omicron type infection is also very low. In addition, according to the Health Council, children are at risk of a rare side effect of myocarditis, inflammation of the heart muscle, as a result of vaccination.
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In explaining the advice, Marianne Gelijinse, the Vice President of the Health Council, says that vaccines are generally safe enough. “But it should yield enough, and it is not so for this group.”
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