Modern vaccine, half dose for the booster: the circular

Third dose of the anti Covid vaccine, the Ministry of Health has given the green light to the recall of the vaccine with Moderna’s Spikevax *, after yesterday’s opinion from the Technical Scientific Commission (Cts) of the Italian Medicines Agency (Aifa). The ok is contained in a circular, signed by the Director General of Health Prevention of the Ministry of Health, Giovanni Rezza, which states that “it is also possible to use the vaccine (Moderna) as a booster for a primary vaccination cycle”. Read also And it is specified that “the ‘booster’ dose of the Spikevax vaccine * is 50 mcg in 0.25 ml, corresponding to half the dose of that used for the primary cycle”. Furthermore, it should be noted that “it can be used after at least 6 months from the completion of the primary vaccination cycle, regardless of the vaccine previously used, in favor of subjects” for whom the third dose is currently authorized.