Via lfree to the fourth dose of the anti-Covid vaccine for 474,814 Venetians, that is 365,326 over 80, 75 thousand frail over 60 and 34,488 elderly guests in nursing homes. Categories indicated by the Ministry of Health, after the s of the ECDC (the European Center for the Prevention and Control of Diseases) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA), which pronounced on Wednesday at the request of Minister Roberto Speranza to express a common orientation for EU countries. The start of the new scatter campaign in the coming days, after the publication in the Official Gazette of the determination with which the Italian Medicines Agency approved the operation on 5 April. Taking into account the current epidemiological situation (the rise in infections, ed), with a view to further consolidating the protection conferred by vaccines and in compliance with the principle of maximum precaution, a second booster with mRna vaccineand provided that a interval of at least 120 days from the third doseto people who have reached or exceeded 80 years, to RSA guests and to subjects with high frailty, motivated by concomitant or pre-existing pathologies, aged 60 or over – reads the note signed by the professors Gianni Rezza (Ministry of Health), Nicola Magrini (Aifa), Silvio Brusaferro (Higher Institute of Health) and Franco Locatelli (Higher Council of Health) -. At the moment this indication does not apply to those who have contracted Sars-Cov2 infection after the third dose. It also reiterates the priority to put in maximum protection all subjects who have not yet received the first booster dose, or booster. In the Veneto 100% of the over 80s completed the primary cycle and 91.8% also took the booster. The majority of the 8.2% who miss the third dose concerns people recovered from Covid or deceased. By frail we mean patients affected by respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological or cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes, blood diseases, cancer. And also severely disabled, transplanted and immunosuppressed. For them, the administration of the fourth dose began last March 1, but unlike what happened for the first three, this time the family doctors have not yet been involved.
The numbers of the pandemic
We have not received any indications from the Region, though our lists with patients possessing the necessary characteristics for the second booster are ready – confirmed Dr. Maurizio Scassola, regional secretary of Fimmg (family doctors) -. We await an official note. For us a surprise, there was no early warning – he reveals Roberto Volpe, president of Uripa, the regional union for institutions for the elderly -. I can only say that now in the 346 retirement homes in the Veneto there are no deaths and the guests infected with the virus, being almost all vaccinated, overcome it without hospitalization or serious consequences. For its part, the Region makes it known that it is awaiting written instructions from the Ministry of Health. Meanwhile RT, the contagion index, drops from 1.29 to 1.2, the incidence from 950 cases to 9.22 per 100 thousand inhabitants, the employment rate of intensive care from 3.5% to 2.5 %, while it increased from 9.3% to 10.2% in the medical area. The risk classification remains moderate. At the hospital in Padova arrived the fifth Ukrainian child sent to be treated in Veneto (three in the city of the Saint and two in Verona) from 27 March. The little boy is three and a half years old and, with his mother and little sister, was transferred to Italy by an aircraft of the Guardia di Finanza together with seven other patients destined for various hospitals in the country. Among them a 48-year-old woman who will be treated in Rovigo.
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April 9, 2022 (change April 9, 2022 | 09:17)
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