Third vaccine dose, Minelli: “Anticipate recall to 5 months”

Anticipate the third dose to 5 months after the second instead of after 6 months, as proposed by the Lazio Health Councilor Alessio D’Amato, “it can be done, there is an urgent need to practice the booster dose after the first two “. This was underlined by the immunologist Mauro Minelli, head of the Foundation for Personalized Medicine for Southern Italy, to Adnkronos Health. “In these days, observing for example what is happening in the United Kingdom, we are noticing that, despite the absence of containment measures, in England there is currently a different trend from that seen in the previous weeks. It is clear to me – explains Minelli – how a similar contingency, rather than the unconditional use of outdoor masks (which in the United Kingdom have long since abandoned), is connected to an ‘immune fence’ that was created there, perhaps also thanks to the large number of infections of recent months that have been able to generate large pockets of natural immunity, but above all thanks to the antibody production developed following the third dose vaccination. A vaccination campaign that, in the United Kingdom, started in September involving all over 50s and which takes place with absolute simplicity and without any formality “.” These measures, in my opinion, not only avoid an ineluctable decline of previously acquired immunity – warns Minel them – but they even reinvigorate and make exponentially efficient the defensive potential of an immune system by now over-trained and with a recent memory of contacts already had with the viral antigen “. All this “points to the urgency of practicing the booster dose after the first two”, he remarks.