Third vaccine dose, Hope: “In Italy since September”

“The third dose” of the anti-Covid vaccine “will be in Italy”. The Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, expressed himself in this way in the final press conference of the G20 Health, in Rome. “We will certainly leave already in September for people who have immune frailty, I am thinking of some categories of cancer patients, transplant recipients and those who have had a fragile immune response compared to the administration of the first two doses”, he said, recalling that “both the EMA”, the European Medicines Agency, “and the ECDC”, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, have expressed themselves very clearly on this point. Read also So “these first third doses will start already in September”, the minister reiterated. “Then – he added – we will continue to analyze all the data, and in all likelihood the third dose campaign will continue and of course continuing to keep the issue of fragility as a compass: therefore on the one hand older people, over 80 years old, on the other for for example, those who live in the RSA, where a very high price has been paid, and the same thing can be true for healthcare personnel: they are the first categories that received the vaccine and in all likelihood they will start from them. , the CTS, will express themselves “, said the minister,” but I think that as early as September we will leave “. When asked if there is a contradiction between the goal of helping countries that have not been vaccinated first and the the fact that the richer countries are already starting with the third dose, the minister stressed that “the two things must be kept together. We cannot disperse the level of protection we have achieved in countries where the campaign is already in progress; a mistake because it would mean going back, but at the same time, however, “we must” carry out a major operation in all the other countries of the world. Things must not be one alternative to the other “. Answering another question related to Italy, Speranza then pointed out that,” if we spent the month of August with limited restrictions, if we had a very different life than in what we have known in the past, when the restrictions were much stronger, this happened mainly thanks to vaccines. This is the truth “. For this” my message continues to be very clear to people who have not yet had the vaccine, to those who have had it and will be called to make a third dose: the vaccine is the key to open the door. of a truly different season. So you have to keep getting vaccinated, vaccinated, vaccinated “, concluded the minister.