Consenso de la Rama de Genética de la Sociedad Chilena de Pediatría sobre priorización de personas con Síndrome de Down y otras condiciones poco frecuentes en la Campaña de Vacunación COVID-19

Covid-19 vaccination among people with disability-Statement from the iADH scientific committeeScientific evidence is the best resource available to make health decisions either at individual or at community levels. To build such evidence, time is a key factor. The COVID-19 global pandemic has challenged scientistsť and cliniciansť ability to produce and test sufficient sound evidence regarding different strategies to limit the spread of coronavirus and its consequences. Having scrambled in the dark at the beginning of the pandemic, the facts are now becoming clear. We benefit day by day from the innovations and understanding that science has brought to the front line in the war against COVID-19. The bulwark of our ongoing defenses against this viral enemy is vaccination. The evidence shows great promise that COVID-19 vaccination conveys many individual and population-level benefits (see Box 1).It remains that most of this evidence comes from general population data, due to exclusion from research for people with disability, severe mental illnesses and other high-risk vulnerable populations. This lack of evidence may result in additional barriers to predictable and successful vaccination among vulnerable groups, 5 who already tend to be less likely to avail of immunization services in general, for reasons that are not fully understood. 6,7 The pursuit of health equity for vaccine guidance requires a roadmap to navigate health inequities with interventions that uphold the ethical principle of justice with the socially just distribution of limited resources. It should be applied within and between countries and regions so that supplies of COVID-19 vaccines are effectively distributed globally based on a gradient of risk rather than a gradient of wealth. 8 With this in mind, it is known that adults with wide a range of disabilities and medical conditions, who typically attend special care dental teams, are at higher odds of hospitalization and mortality due to COVID-19 infection than the general population. 9 In fact, so great is the increased risk to our population with disabilities that in England, 60% of people who died from COVID-19 in 2020 had a disability. 10 Personnel working with populations requiring Special Care Dentistry must advocate the effectiveness of vaccination for all people to ensure equitable outcomes for the world's most vulnerable citizens.

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Covid‐19 vaccination among people with disability—Statement from the iADH scientific committee

Dougall

Molina

Phadraig

2021

Special Care in Dentistry

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COVID-19 Vaccination in Children: An Open Question

Campagnani

Bardanzellu

Pintus

et al. 2022

CPR

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Background: A safe and effective vaccine represents the best way to control the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused, to date, more than 4 millions deaths. Several vaccines are now approved worldwide, according to the country. Being administered to healthy people, anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccines must meet high safety standards, and this is even more important among the pediatric population in which the risk of developing a severe disease is significantly lower than adults. However, vaccination of pediatric population could help in reducing viral spread in the whole population. Objective: Our narrative review analyzes and discusses the currently available literature on the advantages and disadvantages of COVID-19 vaccination in the pediatric population. Methods : Our bibliographic research was conducted through Pubmed, Read and Scopus using COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, immunization, antibody, COVID-19 vaccine efficacy, COVID-19 vaccine safety, children, adolescents, MIS-C, adverse effects as keywords. Results: Although children are less susceptible to COVID-19 infection, they can develop serious consequences, including multi-inflammatory Syndrome. However, before administering children vaccination with complete safety, any vaccine-related side effects should be evaluated. To date, adverse effects are reported in adolescents and young adults following vaccination; but these are mostly isolated reports. Conclusions : Further investigation is needed to establish whether there is indeed a cause-and-effect relationship in the development of vaccine-related adverse effects. However, to date, COVID-19 vaccination is recommended for children and adolescents older than 12 years of age. However, this question is still under debate and involves ethical, political, and social issues.

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Consenso de la Rama de Genética de la Sociedad Chilena de Pediatría sobre priorización de personas con Síndrome de Down y otras condiciones poco frecuentes en la Campaña de Vacunación COVID-19

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Covid‐19 vaccination among people with disability—Statement from the iADH scientific committee

Covid‐19 vaccination among people with disability—Statement from the iADH scientific committee

COVID-19 Vaccination in Children: An Open Question

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