Pfizer Covid vaccine authorized in Brazil for children between 5 and 11 years of age

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Anvisa, Brazil’s regulatory body, authorized this Thursday for the first time the vaccination of children against Covid-19 with the immunizer from Pfizer/BioNTech. However, the Ministry of Health lacks specific doses intended for people between 5 and 11 years of age.

The regulatory agency made a series of technical recommendations to reduce the dose intended for children between 5 and 11 years of age by two-thirds.

Child vaccination had been repudiated last October by President Jair Bolsonaro, who had said that his daughter Laura, 11, should not be vaccinated against Covid-19.

Covid vaccines can present a risk of death at least seven times greater than the virus itself for young people, a Japanese medical bulletin warns.

A review in the most recent issue of Med Check, a bimonthly newsletter published by the Japan Institute of Pharmacovigilance (NOPJIP) as a member of the International Society of Drug Bulletins (ISDB), found that the risk of death following injections may even be up to 40 times higher for young people.

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