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Americans as young 12 could get the Covid-19 vaccine this week. Some experts think it could turn the pandemic around

Americans as young 12 could get the Covid-19 vaccine this week. Some experts think it could turn the pandemic around

Americans as young 12 could get the Covid-19 vaccine this week. Some experts think it could turn the pandemic around
May 11, 2021 2 mins, 8 secs

"It's time to go on offense and end this thing."

Parents urged to catch kids up on other shots

Although many experts are optimistic about the expansion of vacations, pediatricians are concerned about the challenge of balancing scheduling Covid-19 shots with getting children up to date on their childhood vaccines.

"We have seen throughout the pandemic that there has been a decline in routine immunizations, and that does concern me greatly as a pediatrician because I know that many children have missed other important vaccines for diseases like measles or whooping cough -- which, like Covid-19, can be deadly," Dr.

Lisa Costello, a pediatrician at WVU Medicine Children's Hospital and a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics' Committee on State Government Affairs, told CNN on Friday.

One study published in May 2020 by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the number of childhood vaccines administered in Michigan dropped by as much as 22%.

Scheduling those vaccines could be a problem, because it's recommended to wait two weeks after getting the Covid-19 vaccine before getting other immunizations, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians.

"So, it's an interesting dilemma of how states and providers are going to think about trying to catch kids up at the same time that the Covid-19 vaccine is becoming available (for children ages 12 to 15) -- and particularly right now because a lot of the catch up routine immunizations happen as a result of school requirements," Jill Rosenthal, senior program director at the National Academy for State Health Policy, told CNN on Friday.

"Summer, maybe early fall, is a time where you see concerted efforts to make sure kids are fully immunized."

Covid-19 cases could result in long-term treatment -- even if they didn't cause hospitalization

Although younger people infected with Covid-19 may not be at as high of a risk of dying of the illness, experts caution that they may still be serious long-term effects.

People who tested positive but were not hospitalized over the course of their illness may face increased risk of certain symptoms such as blood clots or difficulty breathing, and appear to see their doctor more frequently, new data suggest.

But serious symptoms post-infection were rare.

In a study published Monday in The Lancet, researchers examined data from 8,983 unhospitalized Covid-19 patients in Denmark using data from national registries of patient information collected from February to March 2020.

The risk of blood clots in unhospitalized Covid-19 patients was 0.2%, compared to 0.1% in the non-Covid-19 population.

Unhospitalized Covid-19 patients also tended to see a doctor more often than the control group.

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