Jab may prevent severe COVID-19 complication in teens

Embargoed until: Publicly released: 2021-12-22 10:34

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In a small world-first study, French researchers report that mRNA vaccination was linked with a lower number of adolescent ‘multisystem inflammatory syndrome’ cases. Of the 33 teens admitted to all French ICUs with this complication of COVID-19 in September and October 2021, none had been fully vaccinated and 7 had received one dose. Most of these seven became infected with COVID-19 before or soon after the vaccine shot - prior to a full immune response. The team says this link should also be examined for younger kids.

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Organisation/s: Hôpital Universitaire Robert-Debré, Université de Lille, Hôpital Femme Mère Enfant, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Martinique (France)

Funder: Conflict of interest disclosures: Dr Angoulvant reported receiving lecture fees from Pfizer and being the principal investigator of the PANDOR study, which received an unrestricted grant from Pfizer. No other disclosures were reported.

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