PORDENONE – It was the Pordenone infectious disease specialist Massimo Crapis, heard by Gazzettino, who raised the question of fourth dose against Covid for frail and immunosuppressed people and for those over 80. Yesterday, June 1, the Region moved and urged all health companies in the area to relaunch the vaccination campaign for the fourth dose. The risks faced by the elderly over 80 and people with pathologies, the effectiveness of vaccines in preventing serious forms of infection and the slowdown of the campaign has prompted the Region to formally send a reminder to the health authorities, health workers and doctors of general medicine to relaunch the anti-Covid vaccination campaign for the fourth dose for subjects over 80 and over 60 with frailty.
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THE NUMBERS
As explained by the deputy governor with responsibility for Health, Riccardi, in Friuli Venezia Giulia, to date, 14 thousand doses have been injected on an estimated audience of 105 thousand subjects to be vaccinated. To this data must be added the scientific evidence on the increase in the efficacy of the vaccine after a second booster against symptomatic forms, hospitalizations and severe forms of disease and in the prevention of deaths. Also considering the low rate of adverse events found in field studies in this population group, the administration recommended that all general practitioners, specialists and healthcare professionals have contact with patients over 80 or with frailty and frailty factors. immunosuppression to actively advise the second booster of vaccination. In detail, it is reiterated that candidate patients are people who have been subjected to the first booster for at least 4 months (120 days) and have not contracted Covid after the administration of the first dose and, moreover, must possess certain personal requirements such as being born in 1942 or earlier, guests in senior care facilities.
THE INFECTIVOLOGIST
«Immunosuppressed people, or fragile as the over 80s can be, Massimo Crapis said – would do well to get vaccinated with the fourth dose even before the end of the summer. It should be borne in mind that after four months – as has emerged from many epidemiological studies – the protective effect tends to decrease and for this reason it can put the most fragile people and the elderly in a situation of greater risk ».
THE SUMMER CENTERS
Meanwhile, the Minister of Health, Speranza, announced yesterday that children attending summer camps will be able to do so without using a mask. «We are happy that the choice that we had already made, who have always been faithful to scientific indications – explains the regional vice president and councilor for health, Riccardo Riccardi – is the same one that the minister communicated. I believe that if there are no particular situations, it is also necessary that children can move more freely in the summer camps. If we let them breathe without a mask it is much better. For this reason we had already arranged not to use the protection for children who attend the centers during the summer. And this is a region that has always kept the bar on the starboard side and has always respected the directives of the scientific body ».