In Lombardy, the administration of the third dose of the Coronavirus vaccine will begin “on 21 or 22 September”. This was announced by Guido Bertolaso, consultant of the Region for the vaccination campaign, in the late afternoon yesterday, in the same hours in which the Board of Directors of the Italian Medicines Agency (Aifa) formalized its green light for the third immunization cycle. . Third dose vaccine: who will receive it first. Here is who the fragile subjects are. Pdf The bulletin of 9 September Regions at risk yellow zone, here’s what changes on 13 September The further dose will be administered only to citizens considered fragile and very fragile, all …
In Lombardy the administration of the third dose of the vaccine against the Coronavirus will begin “on 21 or 22 September”. This was announced by Guido Bertolaso, consultant of the Region for the vaccination campaign, in the late afternoon yesterday, in the same hours in which the Board of Directors of the Italian Medicines Agency (Aifa) formalized its green light for the third immunization cycle. .
Third dose vaccine: who will receive it first. Here is who the fragile subjects are. Pdf
The bulletin of 9 September
Regions at risk of the yellow zone, this is what changes on 13 September
The further dose will be administered only to citizens considered fragile and very fragile, all others are excluded pending the evaluations and the pronouncement of theEuropean Medicines Agency (Ema). In recent days, both the Lombard governor Attilio Fontana and his deputy with responsibility for Welfare, Letizia Moratti, have repeatedly stressed how Lombardy was ready to start the third dose machine and was only waiting for the indications of the Ministry of Health. Yesterday here is Bertolaso’s anticipation: “In Lombardy the third dose will start from 21st or 22nd of September. We will share the calendar tomorrow morning (this morning for those who read, ed) with all the territorial social health agencies and we will begin to vaccinate for the third time all the categories identified by the Ministry of Health, therefore the fragile and very fragile, that is: cancer patients, immunosuppressed people, those suffering from chronic diseases. This is about 1 million Lombard, those most at risk of all who must be immediately put back under protection with Pfizer or Moderna vaccine “.
“Then – adds Bertolaso again from the Telelombardia television studios – we will prepare ourselves before the end of the year also for the elderly in the nursing homes (Rsa), for the over 80s and for doctors and nurses particularly exposed to risk situations. From the beginning of 2022 we will then start with all the other people who want to undergo the third dose of the vaccine “. Almost simultaneously, as mentioned, the Aifa note: “The board of directors of the Italian drug agency, convened as a matter of urgency, unanimously approved the use of an additional dose of mRNA vaccine (third dose). The provision – it is specified – concerns subjects with severe immunosuppression, in accordance with the assessment of the treating physician, such as for example trapiant, oncology, dialysis as well as the elderly aged 80 or over and hospitalized in the RSA “.” We will start with the most fragile, those who after two doses do not have a sufficient response “confirms Minister Roberto Speranza, who then announces:” In in the next few hours there will be a circular from the head of the Prevention Department of the Ministry of Health, Gianni Rezza, who will indicate the categories concerned “.
As for health workers, the Aifa note explains that the recall “is expected in conditions of particular exposure to risk”. And finally, it should be noted that the provision “does not include the general population pending EMA to evaluate the data provided by the manufacturers of the aforementioned vaccines. Indications also on the timing of the third dose: after” at least 28 days “from the second dose, as far as it concerns frail subjects and after “at least 6 months” for the other categories.
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