4 Million doses in children needed to prevent 1 ICU admission

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Alexi
May 17, 2022

HOW MANY COVID VACCINE DOSES DOES IT TAKE TO PREVENT ONE ADMISSION TO ICU...

HOW ABOUT 4 MILLION?

JCVI has said that vaccination of children aged 5 to 11 years who are not in a clinical risk group would prevent a relatively small number of hospitalisations or intensive care admissions. For a variant like Omicron, it would take around four million vaccine doses to two million children to prevent one admission to ICU. For less severe illnesses, 58,000 child vaccinations would prevent one-child hospitalisation. Children admitted recently to hospital with Covid had an average length of stay of 1-2 days. The Omicron wave saw no more children in hospital than before Omicron hit the UK.

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