Covid vaccine, third dose not for everyone: indications arrive

Covid vaccines and third dose, new indications arrive. This was announced by the Director General of Prevention of the Ministry of Health, Gianni Rezza, answering a question during the press conference on the analysis of the data of the Covid Monitoring of the control room. “The orientation we held in Italy was to offer” the booster dose of the anti Covid vaccine “to the over 80s, RSA guests and then to health workers starting from the over 60s, who are more exposed to risk. Of course it is important ensure this possibility for all healthcare professionals to protect themselves but also to protect any fragile patients with whom they may come into contact. It is possible that in the next few hours, or in any case shortly, a new circular will be issued giving more precise indications that they will also concern hyperfragile patients and we will see how to regulate with age groups “. “There is no thought for the moment – said Rezza – of a generalized, universal reminder, to be carried out on the entire population, also because many young people were vaccinated very recently and certainly do not need it”. As for the fact that the EMA said it was in favor of the third dose for the entire population over 18, Rezza specified that “favorable” means “that there is the possibility of vaccinating with a booster booster”. Rezza then explained that “this week’s” epidemiological trend “is not very dissimilar to that of last week: there is still a trend towards a slight improvement, the RT is below 1 and stable. there is still a very slight decline. There is decongestion of places in the medical and ICU areas. These indicators, taken together, show us a pretty good trend. Part of the success we are having right now in controlling the epidemic it is due to vaccines and precautionary measures such as social distancing, indoor masks and the Green pass “he highlighted.