On the 10th D.December, Swissmedic announced the Corona vaccine for children dhe approval granted in Switzerland. Arrived but ist he inot yet – It is expected that the vaccine for children should be available from January 2022. First doctors and doctors rush now but before. One of them is Peter Tomasi with one Practice in Wädenswil ZH. Just one day after approval on December 11th, he has two boys with a child’s dose of the conventional Comirnaty vaccine from Pfizer-Biontech Gvaccinated. For this he only used a third of the usual dose, i.e. 0.1 instead of 0.3 milliliters. “I wanted to show that child vaccination with the available vaccine is possible without any problems,” Tomasi told the «SundayZmanagement».
Tomasi is not the only doctor whose patience has broken: The «Sunday newspaper» two other doctors are known, who vaccinated 51 children between the ages of five and eleven this week. But this so-called off-label use is not recommended by the authorities.
In the neighboring country of Austria, on the other hand, the national vaccination commission explicitly calls for this. After all: According to the BAG, the children’s vaccine is on the way. “In the last week of December, the first delivery of 250,000 cans will arrive in Switzerland,” says spokeswoman Nani Moras. In the following week, the BAG expects a further quarter of a million.