Weird how, when you go to the actual Danish Health Authority's website,
it still cites extending Covid vaccines down to children 5-11 years, updated page barely 1 month ago...
Memo presenting the Danish Health Authority’s assessment of the basis for a possible extension of the target group of Comirnaty® primary vaccination to include children down to the age of five years.
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Conclusion
Overall, on the current knowledge base, the Danish Health Authority assesses that vaccination of children aged 5-11 years is safe and effective, and that the sum of total benefits achieved by vaccination of the age group outweighs the possible risks. It is assessed that vaccination of this age group may contribute to increasing immunity in the population, break infection chains and thereby contribute to reducing the transmission of infection in the population; and that vaccination is an important contribution to upholding epidemic control in Denmark. In the course of the current epidemic, the speed and effect of vaccination efforts have considerable consequences for the individual, the population and for society alike. In a social perspective, the timing of COVID-19 vaccination offers for 5-11-year-olds is thus decisive in ensuring that vaccination of the age group has a significant effect. The number of new SARSCoV-2 cases among children aged 6-11 years currently increases exponentially, and a need therefore exists to initiate vaccination of 5-11-year-olds as quickly as possible to ensure that their vaccination may serve to limit transmission of the infection in winter. On this basis, the Danish Health Authority finds that an offer of COVID-19 vaccination of the 5-11-year-olds in Denmark should be initiated. The Danish Health Authority continuously monitors safety data from the enhanced monitoring in place in connection with the roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccination programme, among others via the Danish Medicines Agency’s weekly update on notifications of presumed side effects and the European Medicine Authority’s monthly safety updates related to the COVID19 vaccines etc.
They did, however, phase out their vaccination program this Spring, explicitly stating they will resume in the fall of 2022
The Danish Health Authority expects that the number of covid-19 infections will increase during autumn and winter. Therefore, we recommend vaccination of people aged 50 years and over as well as selected risk groups. Read more about the autumn vaccination programme here.
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