Third dose Pfizer or Moderna for over 40s, the circular

From 1 December, the third dose of Covid vaccine will start for the 40-50 age group. The anti-Covid ‘booster’ dose, as stated in the circular of the Ministry of Health, signed by the Director General for Prevention, Giovanni Rezza, will be inoculated “with an MRNA vaccine, even to subjects between the ages of 40 and 59, provided that at least 6 months have passed since the completion of the primary vaccination course, regardless of the vaccine previously used “. Read also The text specifies that the booster dose will be administered” in the dosages authorized for the same “, ie” 30 micrograms in 0.3 milliliters for Comirnaty by Pfizer / BioNTech and 50 mcg in 0.25 mL for Spikevax by Moderna “, ie for the latter vaccine a dosage halved compared to that used for the primary vaccination cycle. remaining the priority of vaccination of subjects still waiting to start / complete the primary vaccination cycle, as well as of the administration of the booster dose (booster) to the categories for which it is recommended “. The Ministry of Health, the Higher Council of Health, the Italian Medicines Agency and the Higher Institute of Health reaffirm the need to ‘push’ on the booster, in the opinion attached to the ministerial circular. absolute priority is to put in maximum protection the subjects still waiting to start / complete the primary vaccination cycle, in particular as regards the categories most vulnerable to serious forms of Covid-19 by age or high fragility “, the director general of Prevention of the ministry della Salute Giovanni Rezza, Aifa Dg Nicola Magrini and the presidents of Iss and Css, Silvio Brusaferro and Franco Locatelli recommend “to proceed quickly with the administration of the booster dose to all subjects for whom it has already been previously recommended”. To which are now added the 40-60 year olds, “in consideration of the increased circulation of the Sars-CoV-2 virus – underline the experts – which has led to an increase in the incidence of new infections, as detected in recent weeks in throughout the national territory “.