Priority to healthcare personnel, operators and the elderly. It is necessary to maintain coverage. “We are 80% vaccinated”
TREVISO. The Treviso healthcare company has called together the individual hospital management and the top management of the retirement homes in the Treviso area.
We all work together, without pauses, in view of the third dose of anti-Covid vaccine to be administered to healthcare professionals in hospitals as well as to frail patients and RSA operators, who completed the vaccination cycle last winter and will be the first to have to repeat inoculation nine months after the last puncture.
In the province of Treviso, the aim is to offer the third call to around 30,000 people in October.
This is at least the hypothesis that is taking shape at the local level, in line with what is already being defined by the national health authorities: repeat the inoculation nine months after the end of the first vaccination cycle to continue to protect themselves from the virus, giving absolute priority to hospital staff, workers in retirement homes and the elderly hospitalized in facilities for the elderly. So to all the categories that were first vaccinated between December 2020 and January 2021, given the high risks of exposure to the infection and who can now be called upon to refresh the memory of the antibodies with the third anti-Covid injection. “There is still nothing established at national level on the doses, we await the indications to proceed” makes the Ulss 2 of Marca known, although Italy is following in the footsteps of the United States and Israel, which have already announced the third dose for immunosuppressed subjects and for those over 50.
THE PAINTING
“Almost all the Ulss 2 service centers had the vaccination in January, the duration of protection from the virus for the vaccinated is nine months, for those who contracted Covid it is six months from recovery. This means that we are close to the expiry of the coverage ». Data in hand, the director of Israel Giorgio Pavan has already started a confrontation with the Ulss of Marca to determine what to do. It promises to be a race against time. “We have 850 elderly people and about 800 workers who must continue to be kept safe against Covid, we are preparing to restart with the calls in close collaboration with the ULSS,” adds Pavan. The other RSAs in the province are also gearing up. In the last meetings with the top management of the healthcare company, the service centers have clamored to start the new vaccination campaign by October. Considering the possibility of proposing an antibody test before administering the drug to assess the amount of antibodies still present in the body. “We are absolutely in favor of the third dose” continues Dr. Pavan “with a view to continuing to protect our elderly and staff from the virus and its feared variants.”
NEW IMPULSE
If the planning of the third dose goes through as planned, at least in the first phase, the operations will add up to the vaccination campaign in progress to immunize the general population that has not yet adhered to prophylaxis. A few days ago, our province reached half a million immunized out of a total of 880,000 inhabitants. By September, the Ulss of Marca estimates that it will reach 80% of citizens with vaccination.
To boost the operations from this week, access to the Vax Points is free and without reservation for those between 12 and 25 years old, as well as for those over 60 years old.
Furthermore, those who have already received the first dose of Pfizer or Moderna and have a 35-day booking for the booster, can anticipate the second administration to 21 or 28 days, by going directly to the vaccination centers.
From now on, the second dose for those who will be vaccinated will be set at 21 days for Pfizer and 28 days for Moderna.