Children Aged 5–11 Who Received the COVID-19 Vaccine

The Ministry of Public Health has a policy to administer COVID-19 vaccines to Thai citizens, starting with children aged 5-11 years in February 2022. Studies on immunity levels in vaccinated children found that whether administered with a mixed vaccine of Sinovac and Pfizer, or two doses of Pfizer, immunity can be stimulated to a high level. However, immunity levels decrease after receiving the second dose for a period of 3 months or more, which may not be sufficient for disease prevention, especially against the Omicron variant. Administering a booster as the third dose significantly increases immunity levels and improves protection against mutated variants. Comparative studies in adults found that the Pfizer vaccine stimulates higher immunity than inactivated vaccines, which have a higher rate of side effects than inactivated vaccines, but are not severe. Nevertheless, administering a booster dose of any type can effectively reduce the severity of the disease. At the meeting of the Subcommittee on Promoting Disease Immunity, 5th session/2022, on August 2, 2022, and at the meeting of the Emergency Medical and Public Health Operations Center for the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), 476th session, on August 8, 2022, a resolution was made to recommend the administration of a COVID-19 booster vaccine to children aged 5-11 years to stimulate sufficient immunity in the target group to prevent severe illness and the outbreak of COVID-19 in children aged 5-11 years. Therefore, the guidelines for considering the administration of a COVID-19 booster vaccine to children aged 5-11 years are as follows:

Agency:

nakhonsawan-province

Licence:

License not specified

Category:

ข้อมูลสาธารณะ

Geographic coverage:

อำเภอ

Update frequency:

วัน

Years covered:

2020–2022

Source portal:

data_go_th

Updated:

25/08/2024

English title machine-translated from the Thai original

States daily, but the record has not been updated for 752 days (752 cycles)

The same record appears 2 more times on: gdcatalog, gdc_nakhonsawan — counted once here