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Dr. Fauci, White House advisor and top virologist says he would choose this COVID screening “in a second” without hesitation! The top health official said it’s not worth “taking a chance” by avoiding this one thing.
This is one precaution YOU should consider!
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the public has done everything possible to protect themselves and others from the spread of the virus – from wearing face masks to restricting people from gathering indoors. However, the release of highly effective vaccines in late 2020 was a game-changer, finally offering people new protection against the disease. Now, as federal authorities move toward a likely policy change, Anthony Fauci, MD, senior medical adviser to the White House, is urging the public to consider further COVID prevention when it becomes available.
This is what everyone should be doing now!
In an interview with Axios, Fauci said parents should get their younger children vaccinated when they eventually become eligible. The top health official admitted that if his adult children were still under 12, “I certainly wouldn’t want them to get COVID-19. I would have them vaccinated immediately.” “Even if the likelihood of [a child] getting sick and becoming seriously ill is low, why risk that in your child when you can essentially protect them through a measure that has been proven to be both highly effective and very safe?” asked Fauci. He added that vaccinating children “would be an important step in the right direction to control the COVID-19 outbreak in this country.”
Fauci’s remarks come just days after the Food and Administration (FDA) granted emergency approval for a lower dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children ages five to 11. Data from a clinical trial had shown the vaccine to be safe for children in that age group and 90.7 percent effective against the virus. The move signaled that it was more likely that the FDA would approve the vaccine for younger children before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) made its recommendations the following week.
It should be as simple as possible!
The top health official then discussed how he hoped the vaccines could be given to younger recipients if they were approved. “I would like to see the rollout make it as easy as possible for parents to get their children vaccinated,” Fauci told Axios, saying he would like to see it available in pharmacies, pediatricians’ offices, children’s hospitals and community centers. He also acknowledged that parents would “understandably” be hesitant to have their children vaccinated and have questions, adding that “I would reach out to parents and try to explain to them why their children should be vaccinated” as part of the process.
Other experts have commented on Younger’s idea, saying that not all children are as little at risk from the virus as many believe. “We saw the highest hospitalization rates in the five- to 11-year-old age group in September, during the Delta wave,” Fiona Havers, MD, a viral disease specialist at the CDC, told the FDA panel before the confirmatory vote. “Clearly, there are still many susceptible children who are vulnerable to severe illness.”
Amanda Cohn, MD, a senior CDC vaccine official, told the FDA panel that COVID-19 is now a “vaccine-preventable disease,” citing it as “the eighth leading cause of death among children in this age group last year.” It added: “Use of this vaccine will prevent deaths, will prevent ICU admissions, and will prevent significant long-term adverse outcomes in children.”