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The other lever to curb the spread of this Omicron variant is the vaccination of children. It should be open to every 5-11 years from Wednesday, December 22. We know that the virus circulates a lot among the youngest. The parents are they favorable or skeptical?
A first injection for this ten-year-old boy, and a relief for his parents. “Today in the home, everyone is vaccinated and everyone is protected”, says the child’s father. In a center in Bouches-du-Rhône, vaccination is already open to 5-11 year olds. It concerns children in contact with fragile or at risk people. Because the vaccination of the youngest is done on the basis of the parents’ voluntary service and is not compulsory.
Maxime, 10, has no pathology, but he did not hesitate to take a step ahead. “I said to myself, I want to protect myself against other variants which may be perhaps more dangerous”, he said. But a few kilometers away, some parents are wondering. “I think it is the frail and the elderly who should be vaccinated first and foremost”, says a mother. The High Authority of Health must give its opinion Monday, December 20 in the afternoon, to authorize vaccination every 5-11 years, from Wednesday December 22. In France, 6 million children are affected.