Covid vaccine, Bassetti: “We are wrong on the fourth dose”

On the possible green light of the AIFA for the expansion of the audience for the fourth dose of covid vaccine for the elderly and guests of the RSA, “we are making a mistake, we still have 10 million Italians who have not received the third dose, many think that they do not servant “. So at Adnkronos Salute Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the San Martino Polyclinic in Genoa. “With the new variants, the cycle with three doses must be completed to have greater protection. Then it is clear that an over 80, perhaps with other pathologies, will have to take the fourth dose but I would avoid pushing myself today to do it at all because the risk is to make a fifth in 4-5 months, “he says. “If I had to choose, I would prefer a fourth dose in the fall with a vaccine adapted to the variants – he adds – I would no longer use this vaccine to make the fourth dose. The decision is up to others, I would not suggest it with the coming spring. moment and we do not run, we complete the vaccination cycle because there are many who have not done the booster “.