Hope, “Covid is an open problem, booster dose over 60. The vaccines we have today are useful and positive”
“Covid is still an open problem. We have tools that we did not have in the first, more difficult months. The vaccination campaign in Italy has had an extraordinarily positive impact. The vaccine has a first fundamental function, which is to reduce hospitalization and avoid having too heavy an impact on our National Health Service. The over 90% of people in Italy who have been vaccinated over the age of twelve has put us in a position to also address the significant numbers of contagion in recent months in a more positive way.
Now there is an indication from the two international reference organizations, the European Medicines Agency and the European Center for Disease Control and Surveillance, which invite all people over sixty to a further booster dose. We started in Italy, we must insist on this point, it is a question of protecting the most fragile. At the moment the indication is over sixty and the fragile of all ages. As always, Italy will follow the indications of the international scientific authorities”.
Thus the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza on RTL 102.5.
“We are at over two million and nine hundred thousand people who have had the fourth dose. We must insist, this percentage must grow. The hope – he said again – is that with the September recovery there could be an increase in people who decide to protect themselves also in view of the season that for covid is traditionally the most complex, therefore autumn and winter. My appeal to people over sixty is to book the fourth dose, an important shield. Procedures for the authorization of new vaccines are underway, the ability of vaccines to prevent hospitalizations is positive. Science continues to adapt its indications to the evolution of the variants.
The vaccines we have today are useful and positive. This is demonstrated by the fact that compared to when we did not have vaccines, we can also allow higher circulation numbers without a particularly serious impact on our health facilities. My appeal to people over sixty or to frail people is to immediately book an additional dose of vaccine in view of the most complicated months, traditionally autumn and winter”.
Article published on 27 August 2022 - 11:35
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