The third dose anti-vaccineCovid it should be administered at least 28 days after the last. This was established by the circular of the Ministry of Health. Additional dose means an additional dose to complete the primary vaccination course, to achieve an adequate level of immune response. It starts with transplant patients. The “booster” dose, unlike the additional one, will be administered after 6 months defining the strategy in favor of further groups including fragile and higher risk for occupational exposure.
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Additional dose and booster dose
The ministry’s circular on the third additional dose of anti-Covid vaccine therefore distinguishes between “additional” doses and so-called “booster” doses. For additional dose, it reads, “we mean an additional dose of vaccine to complete the primary vaccination cycle, administered in order to achieve an adequate level of immune response”.
Per dose «booster», on the other hand, “we mean a booster dose after the completion of the primary vaccination cycle, after a certain time interval, administered in order to maintain or restore an adequate level of immune response over time, in particular in populations characterized by a high risk, due to frail conditions associated with the development of serious or even fatal disease, or due to occupational exposure “. The booster dose should be given at least six months after the last dose. At the moment, according to the indications of the CTS, the circular specifies, “the administration of the additional dose is considered a priority in transplanted and immunocompromised subjects”.
Without prejudice to the priority of achieving high vaccination coverage with the completion of currently authorized courses, “the strategy for administering a dose will be defined «booster» of m-RNA vaccine (Comirnaty of BioNTech / Pfizer and Spikevax of Moderna) in favor of further target groups, starting with those mentioned above, taking into account the scientific evidence and the evolution of the epidemiological scenario “.
Third additional dose, the 10 categories of patients
There are 10 categories of patients who will be able to receive a third ‘additional dose of anti-Covid vaccine: solid organ transplant recipients under immunosuppressive therapy; hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; waiting for organ transplant; T cell based therapies; oncological pathology; primary immunodeficiencies; secondary immunodeficiencies; dialysis and severe chronic renal failure; previous splenectomy; AIDS. This was established by the circular of the Ministry of Health. Any of the 2 authorized mRNA vaccines may be used as an additional dose: Pfizer in subjects ≥ 12 years of age and Moderna in age ≥ 18.
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Great Britain, third dose for over 50s
Official green light from Boris Johnson’s government medical-scientific consultants to administer a third dose of Covid vaccine for all over 50s in the United Kingdom in the coming months. This was announced in Downing Street by Jonathan Van-Tam, deputy chief medical officer of England, and the head of the British drug agency (MHRA), June Raine. Van-Tam called the success guaranteed so far by vaccines “incredible”, with an estimated 112,000 deaths and 24 million infections avoided in the Kingdom. But he warned that the pandemic is not over yet and that there may be “rough” phases in the winter.
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