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By Apoorva Mandavilli
Published March 31, 2021Updated April 5, 2021
The Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine is extremely effective in young adolescents, perhaps even more so
than in adults, the companies reported on Wednesday — a finding that could ease the return to normalcy
for millions of American families.
No symptomatic infections were found among children aged 12 to 15 who received the vaccine in a recent
clinical trial, the drug makers said; the children produced strong antibody responses and experienced no
serious side effects.
Depending on regulatory approval, vaccinations could begin before the start of the next academic year for
middle school and high school students, and for elementary school children not long after.
The companies announced the results in a statement that did not include detailed data from the trial, which
has not yet been peer-reviewed nor published in a scientific journal. Still, the news drew praise and
excitement from experts.
“Oh my god, I’m so happy to see this — this is amazing,” said Akiko Iwasaki, an immunologist at Yale
University. If the vaccines’s performance in adults was A-plus, the results in children were “A-plus-plus.”
The good news arrives even as the country records another rise in infections and health officials renew calls
for Americans to heed precautions and get vaccinated. On Monday, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that rising cases had left her with a sense of “impending
doom,” while President Biden called on state and local officials to reinstate mask mandates.

Vaccination efforts are accelerating throughout the nation. As of Tuesday, 29 percent of Americans had
received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and 16 percent had been fully inoculated, according to
the C.D.C.
But the country cannot hope to reach herd immunity — the point at which immunity becomes so
widespread that the coronavirus slows its crawl through the population — without also inoculating the
youngest Americans, some experts say. Children under 18 account for about 23 percent of the population in
the United States.
“The sooner that we can get vaccines into as many people as possible, regardless of their age, the sooner we
will be able to really feel like we’re ending this pandemic for good,” said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist
affiliated with Georgetown University in Washington.
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1) Esse texto foi publicado baseado em ações executadas por médicos e cientistas buscando imunização para frear a
pandemia em um público específico. Pergunta-se:
a) Qual é o nome do gênero textual em inglês cujo se baseou o texto?
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b) Qual é o público específico onde os experimentos foram realizados para consolidar a ação de controle ao COVID-
19?
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Answer 1

Resposta:

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