With the spread of the Delta variant, comes the appeal of the doctors to accelerate the vaccination of the most Young people in view of the reopening of schools. To break the delay, asking for an acceleration of the campaign, is the president of the National Federation of Medical Orders, Filippo Anelli. Speaking of inoculations for teenagers, the number one of the Fnomceo explained that if “up to now an attitude of prudence could also be accepted” and “one could in some way think of waiting and seeing evolution”, the epidemiological picture, with the Delta variant now causing the 22 percent of contagions, which “we have in front of us in some way as advice to hurry to get vaccinated before school starts “. While for a push between the over 60, according to Anelli, we now need to go beyond the hubs and involve “General practitioners”.
The “Greater concern” of Fnomceo, explains Anelli, is the school recovery – with masks and spacing as indicated by the Cts – because “like all community activity, therefore also the scholastic ones, the risk that gods can be established outbreaks it is very high and with the Delta variant it becomes the subject of particular concern ”. And he adds: “Deciding together with your doctor is the major prudential practice. On the boys there was one necessary concern from parents. In the 12 year range, the consequences of a Covid are not dramatic. The dramatic ones are aged 50 and over ”. The epidemiological trend at the end of May seemed to indicate that “we were heading towards a season of tranquility” but the Delta variant – says Anelli – “re-starts a process of concern” because “outbreaks can be repeated as happened inlast fall when they also met at school and then spread to the family ”. And moreover, he specifies, “we do not know the Delta variant what effects it will have on the younger generations”. In this context, the cost-benefit ratio it is “absolutely in favor of the vaccine” and “it seems to me that it is duty to advise”To do so.
For the over 60 group, on the other hand, what is happening “is a typical trend in vaccination campaigns”. That is: “Above a certain threshold you meet one resistance to get vaccinated, as is the case withinfluenza. The highest percentages – says President Fnomceo – occurred when i family doctors they took the field because the relationship of confidence which binds citizens to their doctors allows them to make informed choices with respect to the risks of a disease or the risks associated with the vaccine “. Then rings continue, “We expected it” that a share of over 60s would remain uncovered. To this day he still talks about 2.5 million people at risk age severe infection who have not received any doses. “It was one of the issues that would occur in the hub because the relationship of trust is not the same as the one you have with your doctor “, adds Anelli, who deems it” necessary “at this point” to put in place mechanisms of involvement of general medicine in determining afurther push vaccination “among the over 60s, also in consideration of the fact that” where this has happened, the percentages of participation are very high “.
There are almost 4.5 million young people between the ages of 12 and 19 and over 2.5 million over 60 to be immunized. Having exceeded the symbolic threshold of 20 million Italians vaccinated with both doses and with the administrations that for weeks have settled at 500 thousand a day, the vaccination campaign decisively aims to reach those seven million Italians who belong to two categories who, for different reasons, are both considered essential to allow an unrestricted restart in September. Completing the vaccination of those over the age of sixty would make it possible to break down hospitalizations and victims while massive immunization of young people from not having to assume a half-service school yet, with students in Dad and staggered schedules. Although in some countries such as Germany the vaccination of the very young has not been recommended except for those with pathologies and also in Great Britain the under 18 the vaccination campaign has not started.
The problem is that many regions – no longer being able to administer Astrazeneca and janssen (Johnson & Johnson (under 60s – are rescheduling agendas by prioritizing reminders and blocking bookings for younger people. Also considering the physiological drop in appointments that will occur in the next two weeks – since those who take the first dose should do the recall between 10 and 25 August – most likely by the beginning of September only a small percentage are vaccinated adolescents. However, it is the over 60s who remain the category most at risk. Those who have not been reached even by the first dose are over 2.5 million: it is a hard core made up of no vax but also of people who live in isolated places, who are unfamiliar with online bookings, who have no one who can accompany them to the hubs or do the bureaucratic process for them. And still Anelli asks for a greater involvement of general practitioners for this category. “What is happening is a typical trend in vaccination campaigns, above a certain threshold there is resistance to vaccinating, we expected it. Now – he says – I believe that it is necessary to put in place mechanisms of involvement of general medicine to determine a further push ”. Otherwise the numbers will remain those of the last week: in 7 days the first dose was administered only to 9 thousand over 80, to 32 thousand people in the 70 to 79 year range and to 67 thousand between 60 and 69 years. And in any case young people (under 18), except for very rare cases, do not get seriously ill while the very young (under 12) – now the data are consolidated – infect little compared to what was thought a year ago.