Recommendations for the urgent need to vaccinate school-aged and adolescent children against COVID-19 in the Asia–Pacific region

We recommend urgent expansion of a vaccination program for adolescents and school-age children against SARS-CoV-2 infection in the Western Pacific region. Since July 2021, SARS-CoV-2 infections in children have increased rapidly in this region. As infection rates rise due to the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2...

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Autores principales: Kobayashi, Jun, Takeuchi, Rie, Shibuya, Fumiko, Murata, Yuki, Takahashi, Kenzo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8443906/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34530919
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-021-00365-5
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author Kobayashi, Jun
Takeuchi, Rie
Shibuya, Fumiko
Murata, Yuki
Takahashi, Kenzo
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description We recommend urgent expansion of a vaccination program for adolescents and school-age children against SARS-CoV-2 infection in the Western Pacific region. Since July 2021, SARS-CoV-2 infections in children have increased rapidly in this region. As infection rates rise due to the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 (Delta) variant, current preventive strategies such as mask wearing and social distancing have controlled its spread effectively. Prolonged school closure is currently being promoted to suppress virus spread among children. However, the negative impact of prolonged school closure is significant. Although vaccination of children under 12 is still controversial, preparations must be made now for their vaccination.
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spelling pubmed-84439062021-09-16 Recommendations for the urgent need to vaccinate school-aged and adolescent children against COVID-19 in the Asia–Pacific region Kobayashi, Jun Takeuchi, Rie Shibuya, Fumiko Murata, Yuki Takahashi, Kenzo Trop Med Health Letter to the Editor We recommend urgent expansion of a vaccination program for adolescents and school-age children against SARS-CoV-2 infection in the Western Pacific region. Since July 2021, SARS-CoV-2 infections in children have increased rapidly in this region. As infection rates rise due to the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 (Delta) variant, current preventive strategies such as mask wearing and social distancing have controlled its spread effectively. Prolonged school closure is currently being promoted to suppress virus spread among children. However, the negative impact of prolonged school closure is significant. Although vaccination of children under 12 is still controversial, preparations must be made now for their vaccination. BioMed Central 2021-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8443906/ /pubmed/34530919 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-021-00365-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Kobayashi, Jun
Takeuchi, Rie
Shibuya, Fumiko
Murata, Yuki
Takahashi, Kenzo
Recommendations for the urgent need to vaccinate school-aged and adolescent children against COVID-19 in the Asia–Pacific region
title Recommendations for the urgent need to vaccinate school-aged and adolescent children against COVID-19 in the Asia–Pacific region
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title_full_unstemmed Recommendations for the urgent need to vaccinate school-aged and adolescent children against COVID-19 in the Asia–Pacific region
title_short Recommendations for the urgent need to vaccinate school-aged and adolescent children against COVID-19 in the Asia–Pacific region
title_sort recommendations for the urgent need to vaccinate school-aged and adolescent children against covid-19 in the asia–pacific region
topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8443906/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-021-00365-5
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