Third vaccine dose, Hope: “For 40-60 years starting from 1 December”

From 1 December, third dose of covid vaccine in Italy for citizens between 40 and 60 years of age. This was announced by the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, during Question time in the Chamber. “We consider the third dose absolutely strategic. This morning, the booster dose was offered to 2,409,596 people, today we will exceed 2.5 million. had the unique dose of Johnson & Johnson. With the discussion carried out in the last few hours with our scientific community, I want to announce to Parliament that we are taking the further step forward. The choice is to continue by age group: from 1 December, in our country, the generational groups of those between 40 and 60 years of age will also be called to the additional dose, to the recall “, says Speranza. MONOCLONAL – “According to the communications of the Commissioner for Covid emergence, the current overall stock of” monoclonal antibodies “in the regional health facilities are adequate to the needs of the Regions and the requests from the territories have always had a positive response from the structure The current trends in the use of these therapeutic aids, as recorded in the various Regions, are subject to constant monitoring by Aifa and the Ministry of Health precisely in order to balance the need to have an adequate reserve and the reduction to minimum of the feared risk of non-use in terms of validity of the aforementioned products “, said the minister. ANTIVIRALS – “In these days we are working with Aifa and with the commissioner structure so that the same authorization and purchase mechanism” of monoclonal antibodies “can also be used for the new promising drugs from Merck and Pfizer”, he later specified.