São Paulo is the Brazilian state with the highest rate of children vaccinated with the first dose
Brazil reached the mark of more than half of children vaccinated against covid-19. This is what a survey carried out by the CNN Agency points out, which highlights the rate of 56.5% of the group aged 5 to 11 years immunized with the first dose in the country, equivalent to 11,702,344 children.
Last Wednesday, 30, a study published in the scientific journal The New England Journal of Medicine pointed out that US children with both doses of the Pfizer immunizer had a 68% protection against hospitalizations amid the circulation of the Ômicron variant.
SÃO PAULO HAS 90% OF CHILDREN VACCINATED WITH THE FIRST DOSE
While Roraima is the state with the lowest rate of childhood vaccination against the virus, 17.7%, São Paulo leads the ranking of children vaccinated with the first dose, with 90.3%. Still, the state of São Paulo is also ahead with the second dose in the group, with 50.1% applications, although the rate of the second stage in Brazil remains low: 20.1% of Brazilian children have a complete vaccination schedule.
According to the study in The New England Journal of Medicine92% of hospitalizations for Covid-19 among US children aged 5 to 11 years had not received any doses of the vaccine against the disease. “Children should be vaccinated so they do not suffer from complications arising from infection by Sars-CoV-2, this includes hospitalization”said in a statement, the researcher Adrienne Randolph.
Source: Recreio
