Fourth dose, Bassetti: “Let’s wait, but vaccine every 6 months possible”

A fourth dose of covid vaccine to stop the infection? “Israel is an open-air laboratory, they will start with the fourth doses after the third doses started in July and they will start with the over 60s and health workers. But they will do it from January, then at 6 months. If Israel has taken this decision there is a reasoned strategy, but let’s see. For now they are fourth doses only for a specific segment of the population. Personally, if it will be that we have to vaccinate ourselves every 6 months, I do not find anything wrong if this allows us to live more quietly as it happens today “. Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic at the Policlinico San Martino hospital in Genoa, said this to Adnkronos Salute, commenting on Israel’s choice to leave shortly with the fourth doses of the anti-Covid vaccine. “Today in the ward we see that the Covid prognosis for a positive vaccine and a non-immunized one is very different – recalls Bassetti – Everything must be governed by experience and scientific data which, if they say that the recall must be done every 6 months, We will do it. Medicine changes, it does not remain immutable over time, it is constantly evolving. Only the ignorant are amazed at this “.