Covid, Signorelli hygienist: ‘Recall is an opportunity for vaccination check-up’

Any recall for the anti-Covid vaccine becomes an opportunity for a vaccination ‘check-up’ in adults and the elderly, a population that often neglects important immunizations. This, in summary, is the proposal of Carlo Signorelli, lecturer in Hygiene and Public Health at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan, in his speech at the webinar ‘Immunization strategies of the adult-elderly: what we can learn from the Covid experience -19? ‘, Organized HappyAgeing-Italian Alliance for Active Aging and realized with the non-conditioning contribution of Gsk, Msd, Pfizer and Seqirus. “If it is necessary to make calls for anti-Covid, perhaps it is worthwhile, having to bring back 45 million people to revaccinate – he explained – that an extended speech be made to other vaccinations, so as to coincide the moment of the recall with the active offer of all those vaccinations in the elderly which, apart from the flu, are largely neglected. To the point that vaccinations against herpes zoster and pneumococcus will hardly reach the objectives of the vaccination plan. Without forgetting the recall of tetanus and the categories at risk. The vaccination recall against Covid could therefore be the great opportunity for a vaccination check-up “.” We must have a few months of patience – concludes Signorelli – and not dismantle the vaccination centers “set up for the anti-Covid campaign .