Covid vaccine, fourth booster dose for less than 7% Italians: Altems report

“Less than 7 out of 100 Italians have undergone the fourth booster dose of the anti-Covid vaccine: the national average for the fourth dose is 6.63%”. This is what emerges from the 98th episode of the Instant Report Covid-19, an initiative of Altems, the High School of Economics and Management of Health Systems of the Catholic University of systematic comparison of the trend in the diffusion of Sars-CoV-2 at a national level. “The over 80s are the age group with the greatest coverage (29.83%), followed by people aged between 60-79, with a coverage of 12.93% – highlights the ratio -. 80 the region with the greatest coverage is Piedmont (61.74%), while the lowest coverage is recorded in Calabria (15.49%). Emilia-Romagna (23.34%) while the lowest coverage is recorded in Sicily (6.36%) “.” The coverage of the fourth anti-Covid 19 vaccine dose is 7% in the Italian population – underlines Americo Cicchetti, director Altems – with a great variability between the age groups and the regions to which, after the dissolution of the state of emergency, the full responsibility for the continuation of the vaccination campaign as well as the management of supplies goes. promises – continues Cicchetti – with a slight rise in all the indicators mapped by Altems on the spread of the infection: about 1 million new cases have been recorded in the last 30 days “.