A recent report published by the CDC, provides strong evidence that Covid-19 vaccinations decrease the risk of emergency department or urgent care visits by children.
and the ability of the vaccines to elicit antibody production in the children. The current study included many more participants and researchers looked primarily at vaccine effectiveness. To assess vaccine effectiveness, researchers evaluated the vaccination status of children who visited participating emergency departments or urgent care centers with Covid-19-like illnesses.
SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid testing information for the children also was recorded. The researchers then asked a relatively simple question. Were fully vaccinated children who made ED or UC visits less likely than their unvaccinated counterparts to receive a positive SARS-CoV-2 test result? In other words, do the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines decrease the likelihood of severe disease in children? The short answer? Yes.Over 90,000 children who made visits to emergency departments or urgent care centers were included in the Moderna part of the study. About 81,000 children were included in the Pfizer-BioNTech part of the study. Among unvaccinated children, 5.5% of the children in the Moderna part of the study and 5.9% of the children in the Pfizer-BioNTech part of the study tested positive for the virus. Children who were partially vaccinated showed only a slightly lower positivity rate. However, among children who received the full recommended regimen of either vaccine, that number dropped to less than 3%. In fact, only 1.1% of children who received three doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine less than two months before their visit to the ED or UC had a positive SARS-CoV-2 result.
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