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- Between 2020 and 2021, the coronavirus claimed 1.508 victims aged up to 5 years in Brazil.
- Between 2012 and 2021, deaths resulting from fourteen other diseases, such as polio, tetanus and hepatitis B, totaled 498.
- Deaths from the fourteen diseases analyzed are classified as preventable, as vaccines and other care available in the SUS have the power to stop them.
- Vaccination with Coronavac for children between three and five years old was authorized for emergency use on the 13th.
In two years, the number of deaths of children aged zero to five years due to Covid-19 was more than triple the total number of deaths caused over ten years by 14 other diseases.
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This set of causes is part of the Brazilian List of Preventable Deaths, which cites diseases with the potential to kill, but whose risks can be prevented through vaccination, prenatal care, birth care and other interventions offered by the Unified Health System (SUS).
4 times more lethal
Looking only at 2020 and 2021, the first two years of the pandemic, the lethality of Covid-19 among small children was 411% higher than all other diseases. The conclusion was made by the Childhood Health Observatory of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) with data from SIM, the Mortality Information System of the Ministry of Health.
Waiting for vaccine
Children aged three to five can be immunized with Coronavac, vaccine from the Butantan Institute. The age group, however, is not the most vulnerable of the group. Children aged six months to two years have double the risk of death from Covid-10 compared to those who have just been released for vaccination.
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The authorization was made on an emergency basis by the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) on July 13th. Not yetThere is no forecast for the agency to release vaccination of the group of children up to two years old.
(Top photo: Agência Brasil/ Marcelo Casal Jr)
