Third vaccine dose from 1 December, Pfizer and Moderna at over 40

Third dose, from 1 December in Italy the anti-covid vaccine booster – with Pfizer or Moderna – is also up to citizens in the 40-60 age group, as announced by the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza. Only requirement: 6 months must have passed since the completion of the primary vaccination course, even that performed with AstraZeneca or with a heterologous mix of AstraZeneca and an mRna vaccine. Last week the procedures for the booster were defined for those who have been vaccinated with the Johnson & Johnson single-dose: also in this case, as for the booster dose for over 40s, mRna vaccine 6 months after the first administration Read also On December 1st, the new phase of the vaccination campaign opens with the aim of further raising the wall against infections. In 20 days, the booster will be administered to a new, large segment of the population and the audience currently made up of over 60, frail, immunosuppressed, guests of the RSA, health professionals is expanding. & Johnson, single-dose, green light from the Technical Scientific Commission of the Italian Medicines Agency (Aifa) for the booster dose for those who have received the single-dose anti-Covid vaccine. The CTS, expressing itself at the request of the Ministry of Health, considered that “for subjects vaccinated with Covid-19 Janssen it is appropriate to administer a heterologous booster dose with mRna vaccine (in the dosages authorized for the booster dose) starting from 6 months from the first dose “.
In Italy, the booster has so far been received by about 2.5 million Italians. According to the data provided by Speranza, “we are 86.6% of people who have had the first dose and 83.6% of people who have completed the vaccination cycle. We must insist that every single additional vaccine allows us to have an extra shield “, says the minister who – according to Adnkronos – during the control room with Prime Minister Mario Draghi, raised the question of the third dose of the anti-Covid vaccine mandatory for health personnel and those working in the Rsa. The obligation is already foreseen for the first two doses and on the table there is the evaluation of extending the obligation also to the third. For now it is a direction of travel, he explains, but without any immediate precipitation. The car has about 3 weeks to get up to speed. Some regions respond explicitly to the minister’s announcement. “Well the new age groups and the” hypothesized “extension of the obligation of the third dose for health professionals. Lazio is ready”, says the regional councilor for health, Alessio D’Amato. In Lombardy, the booster has already been administered in 365 pharmacies since yesterday: they are affiliated facilities that have confirmed their availability and received the qualification at the end of the training cycle. From today, in the region, all citizens vaccinated for at least 6 months with a single dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine can access the booster with an mRna vaccine. Piedmont is ready to start with a plan already outlined. Those who have matured 6 months from the completion of the vaccination cycle will receive the summoning SMS. Meanwhile, in these hours the go-ahead has arrived from the commissioner’s structure to administer the third doses also in socio-residential structures for minors, the disabled, psychiatric patients and drug addicts. The request was made by the Piedmont Region, on Monday, during General Figliuolo’s visit to Turin at the Piedmont Crisis Unit.