Covid vaccines, Lopalco: “Offer booster to vaccinated for more than 6 months”

“The” anti Covid vaccines in Italy “are in the refrigerators: we offer the booster dose to all those who have completed the vaccination cycle for more than 6 months”. On the anti-coronavirus ‘booster’ the epidemiologist Pier Luigi Lopalco, councilor for health in Puglia, invites you to send a “clear and understandable message for anyone. ‘order used in the administration of the first and second doses “. In an intervention on Facebook, which he entitled ‘Recall for all’, the scientist writes: “I do not know if it is still not clear to everyone”, but “to get out of the pandemic emergency you have to vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate. To prevent the circulation of the virus gains strength, it is necessary that an increasing share of the population has a sufficient level of immunity to avoid the status of carrier and, therefore, of virus diffuser. To obtain this result, you can choose the English way: you vaccinate whoever you want and via the restrictive measures as long as the health system holds “. Thus, however, “the virus regains strength and everyone can see what it means in terms of suffering and loss of human life. The alternative” to the English road “is to accelerate immunization through vaccination”. For Lopalco, ” strategy to follow then is quite simple “. First: “Convincing those who have not yet done so to get vaccinated. The obligatory Green Pass, even for breathing, I think is the most effective way and with the most acceptable costs”. Second: “Offer the booster dose to those who, despite being protected from serious illness thanks to two doses of the vaccine, begin to present a weakening of immunity that makes them potentially susceptible to infection and, consequently, contagious. To date – he remembers the epidemiologist – the booster dose is offered according to a priority criterion that follows the trend of the early stages of the vaccination campaign: first the very fragile, then health workers and the frail, then the over 60s, etc. This approach, even if correct on the merits, however, it represents a useless organizational complication “, observes the scientist-councilor who proposes to offer the booster dose to anyone who has completed the vaccination cycle for more than 6 months. A” reminder must therefore be made to all Italians – Lopalco comments -. For those who have not yet been vaccinated, a call to common sense and conscience. To all the others, the vast beautiful silent majority, a vaccine booster for r defend yourself even better and longer “.