Third dose of vaccine, Bassetti: “I’m not sure it’s useful for 40-year-olds”

I am not so sure that a 30-40 year old needs to get the third dose of “Covid vaccine” at the end of 6 months “from the end of the primary course.” When the vaccine protection expires depends a lot on age and immune system. So to the microphones of ‘A sheep’s day’ on Rai Radio 1 Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the San Martino hospital in Genoa. “On the other hand, I am very sure – reiterates the doctor – that the frail and the over 60 must do it immediately, not in 10 days, perhaps even before the expiry of the 6 months”. Among other things, the 40-year-olds who in December will have passed 6 months from the second dose “are very few and this – notes Bassetti – has also created a wrong communication, creating the psychosis of the third dose when it was enough to say that 6 months after the second dose he could go for the vaccination, optionally speaking, and primarily with regard to frail and elderly subjects “. “As a doctor I am worried because the virus is circulating. We have to grit our teeth for November and December and see what will happen with the multiplication of infections,” Bassetti stressed. “We must hope that in these two months many third doses of” anti-Covid vaccine “will be given, especially to the elderly. I find it paradoxical – the doctor reiterates – that from December 1st it will open to third doses for 40-year-olds having 75% of elderly people and fragile people who haven’t received it yet. We have to get these people to take the third dose right away, not in a month but tomorrow “.