Updated Covid vaccines and boosters, who needs it

“The fact that these adapted vaccines are approved for the over 12s does not mean that we also have to vaccinate 30-40 year olds who have already done the full course of vaccines.” So at Adnkronos Salute Matteo Bassetti, director of Infectious Diseases of the San Martino hospital in Genoa, on updated Covid vaccines and the possibility, highlighted today by the experts, even for those who are not part of the categories at risk of getting immunized with the booster. Read also “At the moment the priority is to the over 70s and over 80s and the frail – underlines Bassetti – these are the categories most at risk. Now enlarging the number of vaccinable people risks diverting attention from the need to vaccinate the categories at risk provided for in the circular of the Ministry of Health “. “If a thirty-year-old asks me if he should get the new bivalent vaccine, I tell him no – he explains – Then if one wants to go vaccinating, he can do it, as already happens with the flu, but we do not put vaccinations on the same level for young people and those for the elderly. The vaccination campaign today must not be mass, but differentiated by age and comorbidity “.