What’s new about the flu vaccine this year? Boticaria García talks about this in Sapeando.
Winter is just around the corner Colds and flu start. Therefore, a vaccine against this infection is a good ally. Boticaria Garcia visit Sapeando to give news about this vaccine, but one that is administered to children and adolescents. As he explains, “there are no more punctures.”
“This year in this age group there are inhaled influenza vaccine“, he points out. “It’s very well received,” he claims, “the crying stopped when I saw the needle“The campaign to vaccinate children against influenza began last year and recommends vaccinating all children “between the ages of six and 59 months, or five years.”.
Boticaria indicates that last year only 33 and 55%, depending on the community. “For influenza, we are still far from achieving good coverage,” says the pharmacist. Although this may seem like a mild illness, Botikaria explains that Last year, 60,000 children were diagnosed with the flu. of these, 5,000 were hospitalized, two-thirds of whom were healthy children.
“900 have seriously evolved, of which 250 to 300 were hospitalized in intensive care units and, worst of all, there were eight deaths,” adds the pharmacist. Despite these data, Boticaria indicates that they are not given importance and, therefore, they don’t communicatedue to which people do not consider the vaccine necessary for children.
