Spanish Paediatrics Association

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SMC participants

Pediatrician and collaborator of the Advisory Committee on Vaccines, the Spanish Association of Pediatrics and the Spanish Association of Primary Care Pediatrics

Coordinator of the AEP Vaccine Advisory Committee and Primary Care pediatrician

Head of the Pediatrics Unit and coordinator of the Sleep Unit of Hospital Quirónsalud Valencia. Coordinator of the Sleep and Chronobiology Group of the Spanish Association of Pediatrics (AEP).

Contents related to this centre
Vaccine

Two studies, one published in The New England Journal of Medicine and the other, the CDC's Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), find that vaccination against COVID-19 effectively protects children and adolescents aged 12-18 years from both infection and severe disease. Both papers cover periods when the more transmissible Delta variant was dominant. Paediatrician Ángel Hernández Merino assesses these results.