Covid, Gismondo: “We can’t get vaccinated every 3 months”

“We can’t keep getting vaccinated every 3 months.” Thus Maria Rita Gismondo, director of the Laboratory of clinical microbiology, virology and diagnostics of bioemergencies at the Sacco Hospital in Milan, comments on the ministerial circular to Adnkronos Salute in which it is recommended to over 80, guests of the Rsa and over 60 frail for pathologies of to be given a fifth dose of bivalent Covid-19 vaccine updated to Omicron variants. Fifth dose that all the others over 60 can receive, upon request. “Give the right space, where necessary, to therapies, now that Covid is no longer the serious illness it was before”, and focus on “a vaccine annual with anti-flu “. On the vaccination front, therefore, the expert indicates the objective of an annual product to be co-administered together with the anti-flu prophylaxis. Maybe a ‘2 in 1’ product, which with a single injection stimulates the immune response against both infections? “It depends on the quality of the product that you manage to propose”, replies Gismondo.