The third dose will be "most likely necessary for everyone".
Word of the Undersecretary of Health Pierpaolo Sileri, who, interviewed on Radio Capital, also sets the next stages of the campaign.
"Priority will be given to those who made the Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine, who will need a booster soon," he explains.
Again, "within the year we will proceed to administer the third dose for the elderly and healthcare personnel, then from January to the rest of the population, staggering on the basis of when the first and second dose was administered".
The choice of the third dose, Sileri underlines, "is desirable to be shared by all of Europe, considering the boom in infections in some European countries", where together with cases "the risk of new variants spreading increases".
As for the age group 5-11: “We are waiting for the regulatory bodies, as soon as it is approved and available in Italy, my son and I would certainly do so. I have a two-year-old son and if there was a vaccine for his age I would do it immediately, unfortunately there is not yet ”.
Parallel to boosters, third doses and "boosters", we proceed with the first doses. The goal is to reach the goal of 90% of the immunized over 12 population. Not easy, given that now with the first doses we proceed slowly: not to get vaccinated is now a hard core to be convinced, between reluctant and no vax convinced.
44.4 million people have completed the vaccination cycle, 82.22% of the population over 12, while 86.06% have done at least one dose.
Meanwhile, the third inoculations exceed one million, between "additional dose", administered to frail subjects, and "booster", that is the further recall to the over 60s that must be carried out at least six months after the second dose.
(Unioneonline / L)
