After the mid-August braking, accelerate the race to vaccinate at least 70 percent of the children before the start of classes. Meanwhile, in Italy there is a strong increase in hospitalizations of Covid patients (192) which mainly affects non-immunized forties, fifties and sixties. And it overwhelms Sicily, one step away from the yellow band, where however, after the intervention of the Privacy Guarantor, Governor Musumeci suspended the obligation of the Green pass in public offices provided for in the “Ferragosto ordinance”. On a national scale, those between 12 and 18 years old can go to a hub even without a reservation since yesterday. Surprisingly, the very young who have already chosen to protect themselves are not few: 47 percent, almost half, have already received at least one dose. In these hours, however, the response has been good, beyond the general slowdown of 15 August.
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Vaccines for adolescents, initiatives
The Regions, to convince children to get vaccinated, are resorting to various initiatives. In Liguria in discos together with music (but you cannot dance) there will also be the possibility of receiving the vaccine. In Tuscany, campers go to the beach with the slogan “GiovaniSiVaccinano”. In Lazio there are junior open days with which teenagers can quickly get vaccinated. Lombardy has decided to keep the booking system because it is considered more effective. Even in Puglia, explains Professor Pier Luigi Lopalco (councilor for health), the local health authorities are organizing open days for the very young: «In our centers, adolescents who show up even without a reservation are vaccinated. Since there is space in the agendas, we invite the students to book themselves anyway: from an organizational point of view it is better. From 23 August the active call starts through the schools: it will be the institutes that will invite their students, class after class, to get vaccinated ».
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Strategy
According to Lopalco, the vaccination strategy for children must run in parallel with the reduction in the number of unprotected people in the 40-60 age group. “Among the forties and fifties we still have 20-25 per cent of non-immunized people. And they end up in the hospital ». The other day, General Francesco Figliuolo had asked the Regions to open up to “on demand” vaccinations: “We must reach the largest possible number of young people and people belonging to the school and university sector, in order to promote maximum safety for the reopening of schools “. In recent days, 20 percent of requests for vaccines have come from young people, even from the 20-29 age group. Data from the Higher Institute of Health confirm that the Delta variant is mainly infecting unvaccinated children. In the last month the average age of positives has dropped (28 years) and 25.2 percent of new cases are between 0 and 18 years. At the same time, demonstrating the benefits of vaccines, among the over 70s (the age group with the highest percentage of immunized people), there is just 5.2 percent of the total number of new infections. Limiting itself to the last week, according to the ISS report, the virus is also spreading among children: “There has been an increase in the 0-9 year range with an incidence slightly higher than 50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants for the first time from the beginning of May. Similarly to what was observed in the previous week, the incidence in the 10-19 age group is 156 per 100,000 inhabitants, in the 20-29 age group it is 146 and in the 30-39 and 40-49 age groups it is 79 respectively. and 56 per 100,000 inhabitants “. However, the race of infections in Sicily also appears unstoppable, not surprisingly one of the Regions with the lowest percentage of vaccinated people. Yesterday out of 3,674 new cases in Italy, almost a quarter (881) were on the island. Out of 24 deaths from Covid 7 are in Sicily. Covid patients increased by 192 units in Italy (20 in intensive care), but of these 51 are on the island (3 of which in intensive care). For Sicily, the transition to the yellow band is very likely.
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