Hope: “Immediately to the 80-year-olds, to the guests of the RSA and to the health personnel. We protect the most fragile and those who work in hospitals”
Hope: “Immediately protect the most vulnerable and those who work in health care” – “We immediately give more protection to the most vulnerable and to those who work in health centers”, explains the minister while the last circular concerning the third dose of the booster, entitled “Starting the administration of ‘booster’ doses in the scope of the vaccination campaign “.
Third dose with Pfizer or Moderna – In line with what was highlighted by the CTS, the document provides that the third dose “may also include subjects with high frailty motivated by concomitant / pre-existing pathologies, subject to the opinion of the regulatory agencies”. Regardless of the vaccine used for the primary cycle, “it will be possible for now to use any of the two m-Rna vaccines authorized in Italy (Pfizer and Moderna) as a booster dose. The booster dose must be administered at least six months after the completion of the vaccination cycle. primary”.
Third dose and priority categories – The circular still indicates that the first to receive the third dose will be the over 80s and the staff and guests of the RSA. At a later stage, the operators of the health professions and health care workers active in public and private health, social and social welfare structures, pharmacies, parapharmacies and offices, starting from 60 years of age or with concomitant pathology such as to make them vulnerable to Covid or with a high level of exposure to infection.