Guest on franceinfo, the infectious disease specialist Jean-Paul Stahl spoke about the vaccination of children, who, according to him, pay the price for unvaccinated adults.
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“We are going to make children weigh the weight of adults who refuse vaccination, so even if there is no real risk, on an intellectual level there is something that shocks me“, declared Jean-Paul Stahl, infectious disease specialist Monday on Franceinfo while the High Authority of Health must decide at the beginning of the afternoon on the vaccination of children from 5 to 11 years old.
“We know that the virus circulates in children, that they do not risk much because severe forms are rare and studies produced so far show that the vaccine does not have significant side effects in them. For now it’s reassuring“, details, on the one hand, the professor emeritus at the CHU of Grenoble, questioned on the need to vaccinate all children,”but we will vaccinate children for adults“.
“A little more hindsight is needed, but the published data are relatively reassuring in terms of the efficacy of the vaccine. The third dose provides completely correct immunity to Omicron“, added reassuring Jean-Paul Stahl,”We must nevertheless remember this obvious fact: the real problem at the moment is unvaccinated adults. Yesterday in my CHU, of the 8 people hospitalized in intensive care, 7 were not vaccinated. “
While the Minister of Labor Elisabeth Borne is preparing to meet the social partners by video, the doctor spoke about the compulsory vaccination pass project at work: “The workplace is one of the places in which we contaminate ourselves, so from a medical point of view, it’s obvious, a good thing“.