ドイツ（Germany 🇩🇪）： recommend COVID jab for adolescents
２０２１年８月２日（Mon.）12:00UP ： ドイツでは12〜17歳の若者にもワクチン接種を薦めるようです。（ニュースソース： DWーDE ８月１日発 ）
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Coronavirus: Germany set to recommend COVID jab for adolescents
Germany's government wants to start promoting COVID vaccinations for 12- to 17-year-olds, according to a draft plan. Giving the jab to this age group would go further than guidance from the country's vaccine regulator.
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The Netherlands already recommends the COVID jab for the over-12s, and Germany is set to follow suit
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Germany is planning to encourage vaccination for those aged 12-17 as concerns grow about the spread of the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus, agencies and media reports said on Sunday, citing a draft plan.
Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn and the 16 regional health ministers are expected to sign off on the proposal, drawn up by Health Ministry officials, on Monday, despite there being no official go-ahead for such a move from the country's vaccine regulator, STIKO.
Limited recommendation
In June, STIKO recommended that only 12- to 17-year-olds with preexisting conditions, or who lived with people at high risk from COVID-19, should be vaccinated.
However, people in this age group are already permitted to be vaccinated in consultation with their parents and doctors even if they do not fall into those categories.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA), which evaluates and supervises medicinal products within the European Union, has approved the BioNTech-Pfizer and Moderna shots for all over-12s.
According to the ministry's draft plan, vaccinating 12- to 17-year-olds could "contribute significantly to a safe return to classrooms after the summer holidays."
The proposals come amid more general concern about a slowing rate of vaccination, with just 52% of the population fully inoculated.
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Health officials are worried that the return to school after summer could help spread infections
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Booster shots for the vulnerable
The draft plan also contains a proposal for offering booster shots of COVID-19 vaccine to the elderly and those most at risk from the disease from September 1.
BioNTech-Pfizer or Moderna booster shots would be provided by mobile vaccination teams in care and nursing homes, according to the plan.
The document cites recent studies indicating that vulnerable people lose the original protection afforded by the vaccinations over time.
Germany has been seeing relatively low infection rates in recent weeks, but numbers are on the way up again, largely owing to the more easily transmissible delta variant.
The public health agency, the Robert Koch Institue, reported 2,097 new coronavirus cases on Sunday and one death. Since the pandemic started, Germany has recorded more than 3.7 million cases and 91,659 deaths.
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日本でも一部の自治体で若者（受験生等）に優先的に接種しているところがあるようです。が、そもそも１日100万回接種を目指すと言って、実際に140万回・日ぐらいに達した日もあろうかと思いますが、それも長続きせず、ワクチン不足によって下降傾向に陥り、最近は70万回・日程度に落ち込んでいます。従って、60代、50代、40代等への接種も順調とは報道されていませんし、接種予約そのものも中断している自治体も多いようです。なので、12〜17歳レベルへの日本での接種はまだまだ進まないのでしょう。また、アストラゼネカ（AZ）のワクチンは血栓問題が取り沙汰されて来ていますので、AZの若者への接種は危険と判断すべきでしょう。政府関係者は、メリットの方が大きいなどとコメントしているようですが、それは全体主義的な発想で、少数や個人の権利を無視するに等しい発言と考えます。仮に自由意志であって強制でないと言ったとしても、打った後にしか結果はわからないことですし、自由意志で打って結果死亡したとしても、当局は自由意志だったと言い訳するだけで、これは無責任で全体主義的発想です。
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