Covid vaccine, Rezza: “No risk of doing more doses”

“There is no risk in making multiple doses of the anti-Covid vaccine”. For the second booster, in any case, “if a young person were to be vaccinated in October it would be a year after the first booster. And, as with the flu, it would be a normal vaccination”. This was underlined by the Director General of Prevention of the Ministry of Health, Gianni Rezza, who spoke at the event ‘Public and private health: how to restart’, healthcare talk by RCS Academy. “We do not yet know when the vaccination protection lasts – he added – or if there will be a decision to vaccinate young people”. Rezza points out that “we are preparing for autumn-winter because we expect Sars-CoV-2 to behave like a seasonal virus. It endemics. We must prepare for the season in which the impact of the infection we think may be greater. “. “We are heading towards the summer season – he stressed – and the lowest incidence should arrive, unless incredible new variants intervene, against which we are not yet protected. But it is difficult, because Omicron travels so fast that it does not give space. to other variants “. “For the autumn vaccination campaign – he explained – we think that vaccines adapted to the new variants” of Sars-CoV-2 should arrive, because the authorization process should start in the summer. But we don’t know what the target will be, probably the groups defined at risk for the flu vaccination. We do not know how generalized this campaign can be with the second booster dose, we should also decide it together with the other European countries “. Currently, however, “too few immunosuppressed people have carried out the second booster dose” anti-Covid vaccine, which for them “was already foreseen” and represented a first booster after a primary vaccination cycle which for these patients is considered to consist of 3 doses (cycle primary standard plus additional dose). “It has now also been recommended for very old people and people between 60 and 79 who have serious underlying diseases.”