Covid Italy, Viola: “Omicron 5 spreads, lower the fourth dose to 60 years”

“With the spread of the Omicron BA.5 variant, we risk finding ourselves unprepared. In the US the second recall is authorized for the over 50s, in France for the over 60s. We must be over 80 years old, thus leaving many people at risk out. of disease with medium-high severity. If we want to avoid increasing hospitalizations and deaths, we need to widen the range of the population authorized to the fourth dose “. Antonella Viola, immunologist at the University of Padua, is convinced of this. “The data are now solid – she points out on Facebook – and show without doubt that in the over 60s the fourth dose is effective in preventing severe illness. But we must act now”, warns Viola.