More than one in two teenagers aged 12-17 at Belgium have chosen to do so vaccine against coronavirus.
For children 12-15 years old, there must be the consent of one parent, while from 16 years old, each teenager is solely responsible for his choice.
According to data from the Belgian Institute of Public Health (Sciensano), published today by the newspaper “Le Soir”, and rebroadcast by APE-MPE, 55% of adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 have received at least one dose of the vaccine. An almost similar percentage for girls and boys.
Two-thirds of Flemish teenagers have received a dose of the Pfizer vaccine, compared to a much smaller percentage in Wallonia. However, rates in Brussels are much lower, as less than 18% of teens have received the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
“Soir” recalls that on July 9 the Supreme Health Council (CSS) issued a detailed opinion on the “vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 from 12 years”. Since then, Belgium has called on young people over the age of 12 to be vaccinated against covid, without obligation.
The CSS believes that vaccinating adolescents “brings few individual benefits”, given the very low risk of hospitalization or death from the virus. It can, however, be useful in “helping to limit the transmission of the virus to the general population and thus protecting the most vulnerable groups”.
This is therefore an “altruistic” vaccination, as the vaccine has been shown to reduce the risk of transmitting the virus. But the CSS opinion also contained some reservations. Especially when asked if it was “morally and medically / scientifically acceptable to envisage mass vaccination of adolescents in rich countries when the majority of the elderly and sick have not yet been vaccinated in the rest of the world”.
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