URGENCY OF COVID-19 VACCINATION IN ADOLESCENTS: ANDROGEN AND ESTROGEN RECEPTORS VIEW
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Date
2022
Authors
Kazybay, Bexultan
Ahmad, Ashfaq
Xie, Yingqiu
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Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Abstract
Given that international and domestic flights now require only adults
to be vaccinated or have negative PCR test results, adolescents’ vacci nation of COVID-19 for safe travel needs urgent consideration. As adults
benefit from vaccination policies that give them priority, now children
may become a source of infection transmission leading to new COVID-19
wave outbreaks [1].
With the new cases surging, 12–17 years old adolescents are rec ommended for vaccination (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/20
19-ncov/vaccines/recommendations/adolescents.html). However, the
hesitation and decreasing roll-out make further worrisome because ad olescents’ immune system development or the elevation of hormones
may let them become more vulnerable to the infection of SARS-CoV-2
and emerging variants.
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Type of access: Open Access, COVID-19, vaccination, adolescents