A difficult fact, however, is that many drugs are already used in children; before 2003, when the rules changed the licensing rules, there was no law for children to be tested before being given medication. A 2019 Study found that doctors use prescription drugs almost once in five visits to the hospital, especially antibiotics, although some groups are also given a prescription. This frequent use poses a challenge for physicians and scientists who are forced to prove that Covid is unique.
Shannon Manzi, an assistant professor of pediatrics and director of safety and quality at Harvard Medical School’s department of Pharmacy, told WIRED via email. “If tens of thousands of children are vaccinated at one time or another, with no time to re-evaluate their child immunization tests, we have lost the ability to ensure that they really help us and see any problems before they reach everyone.”
However, Manzi wrote, scientists are already struggling to come up with a vaccine. Ashley Duty, medical manager at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, said the same. “We heard that the FDA had approved the Pfizer vaccine, our team started discussions and made sure we agreed on this,” he said. “The impression I have been hearing from everyone I have spoken to is that we feel pressured – but we do not feel comfortable developing what we have agreed to for more than 12 years. Because we are still in the middle of educating children to know the right level.”
The Pfizer test format is divided into children aged 12 to 3 years – 6 to 23 months, 2 to 5 years, then 5 to 11 years – and gives each group a different level depending on their age, size, and safety level. in the body. The treatment has been announced in public, and in a public hearing last week, the medical community rewrite it, as a barrier to anyone trying to use the vaccine in writing the wrong thing. “The first thing is to make sure they are using the right dosage, because if you use older drugs people will have a lot of problems,” said David Boulware, senior vice president and professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School. “We hope that if people use the vaccine, they will use the same level of learning that tested third-term children.”
Getting vaccinated in letters may not be as easy as it sounds. For one thing, the number of children is small, up to 3 micrograms. That dose is not self-determined; it should be pulled from the bottle. Working from the vaccines currently in use, it is easy to complain and get the highest dose, says Michael Ganio, chief medical officer and pharmacologist at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Once the vaccine has been approved, it needs to be modified, with some alternative or reduction available to children. But it is an obstacle now.
Another problem: the unique way in which the Covid vaccine is distributed. They are still under state control, which pays for them, so finding them in place of medical supplies or a medical office is not as easy as asking a pharmacist. Vaccination agencies have signed up promises and the CDC in advance of how they will distribute. Dealing with this can have serious technical consequences. Instead, at the ACIP meeting on Monday, there were some unplanned exceptions: a brief discussion with a CDC official who, not to mention the interviewees, warned that the use of the vaccine would prevent donors’ reimbursement, give them a chance to be vaccinated against the vaccine, and apply to the CDC to continue administering the vaccine.
