Covid vaccine, Sileri: “Third dose will be for everyone”

“It is premature to talk about” third dose of the Covid vaccine for everyone now, “but, if you ask me if I think we should all take the third dose, my answer is yes. When? ” the answer. “It is clear that there is a decline in immunity over time, which varies from person to person, also based on any comorbidities that people have, but it is likely that over time we will all have to do it”. This was explained by Undersecretary of Health Pierpaolo Sileri, who spoke on ‘Tgcom 24’. “We start with those for which science has already indicated the need for a third dose, for example transplant recipients and awaiting transplantation, patients with cancer, dialysis patients. Then there are the elderly, in whom the competence of the system immune tends to be reduced. And then we will see the rest of the population “, Sileri suggested. “But, as a doctor, I imagine that the third dose will be useful. The when will be defined in the coming months. It is clear that, if in the coming weeks or months we should observe an increase in vaccines in January and February. infections, not in severe form because a memory immunity remains, will mean that now is the time to think about a third dose and will give us the guide for third doses for everyone else “, clarified the undersecretary. , he added, “my colleagues were the first to be vaccinated. At the moment there are no infections on the rise among health personnel or rather there has been a slight increase, but absolutely not significant. It is therefore conceivable that a third dose to secure the national health system. We have already had too many deaths among those who work in health care and we must also avoid that the NHS cannot continue because the workforce is failing, and avoid further gold infections in hospitals “.