How will Italy move towards the third dose of the vaccine for all?
Third dose of the vaccine in Italy. What did Minister Speranza and Commissioner Figliuolo say? Facts, announcements, problems and unknowns
Third dose of the vaccine, full speed ahead for everyone.
"We will work to extend the booster dose to further generation groups". Thus the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, in a press conference at Palazzo Chigi according to whom "the WHO alarm must be considered with the utmost attention". On the Green pass, he assured "the changes are not on the agenda, 117 million green certificates downloaded this morning". On the state of emergency "the government will decide" in the days immediately preceding the deadline ". Son, we're at 87.7% coverage against the virus, we can give everyone the third dose. Locatelli, the third dose is safe and "Aifa has taken steps to acquire an adequate quantity of the oral antiviral drug for Covid-19 molnupiravir, authorized in Great Britain". Meanwhile , Germany announces the third dose of Covid vaccine for everyone six months after the second.
This is a summary of the updated picture of the latest and most relevant news on the progress of the vaccination campaign, not only in Italy. But now let's see in particular what the Italian institutions have announced today on the third dose in particular.
THE WORDS OF SON
“Yesterday we exceeded the 110 thousand third doses performed. The daily peak of third doses of vaccine administered that we expect will be between December and February ”. Thus, during the press conference on the continuation of the vaccination campaign, the Commissioner for the Emergency, Francesco Figliuolo, at the multifunctional center of Palazzo Chigi. “Hubs have been rationalized in many regions, but this is a choice shared with us – he said -. We will no longer have the peaks of the old season, we will never reach the maximum peak of 350 thousand doses per day ”.
ACCELERATE ON THE THIRD DOSE FOR ALL
The Commissioner underlined the importance of "accelerating with the third doses and recovering on the first", since "the quantity of doses to meet all the commitments is more than enough". "I have already told the Regions, in addition to the active call, to cope with access to vaccination without reservation", said the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, while as regards the generational groups to which to administer the third dose, a possible "lowering the age will be decided with the scientists from next week ”. "On the authorization of the vaccine for the 5-11 age group – he added – we await a pronouncement from Ema, hoping that it will arrive in December".
THE POSITION OF THE CTS
The Technical-Scientific Committee continues to reassure about the safety of the booster. “It is largely safe – said the president of the Higher Health Council, Franco Locatelli, coordinator of the CTS -. For what little it's worth I received the third dose without the slightest problem, and it confers further protection precisely because it stimulates the memory cells of the immune system ”. The coordinator then reiterated the importance of individual responsibilities in "avoiding gatherings and participation in parties" if there are no masks and the risk of virus circulation is important ". "Non-pharmacological measures – he said – have contributed together with vaccines to maintain viral circulation at favorable levels in Italy compared to other countries".
GREEN PASS CHAPTER
In this context, the Green Pass remains a decisive tool “because it makes the places where it is used safer and has had an incentive effect for the vaccination campaign”, said Speranza. "So the government's intention is to continue using this tool, and changes are not on the agenda with respect to how to use the Green pass." This morning alone, 117 million new Green Passes were downloaded. "This number gives the sense of a tool that Italians have learned to use and appreciate", concluded the minister.
THE QUESTIONS OF THE TRUTH
"The problem had already been raised by the Truth at the end of May and reiterated in recent weeks: general practitioners, pediatricians and especially pharmacies (struggling with the chaos of tampons) will be able to support the" second round "of calls for everyone? Question that we have repeatedly asked ”, wrote Camilla Conti of the newspaper La Verità:“ Now the knots have come to a head. And yesterday also the president of the Gimbe foundation, Nino Cartabellotta, declared himself "a little worried because some Regions were in a hurry to dismantle vaccination hubs that could be useful with these numbers". "
In reality, added the newspaper founded and directed by Maurizio Belpietro, “it was not the Regions that wanted to dismantle the hubs but the Ministry of Health, which then indicates the route to the commissioner. Last May 31, the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza was clear: "We will need to pass from an extraordinary phase to an ordinary phase and I think that this new ordinariness can be entrusted to our extraordinary network of general practitioners but I think that in the long term gyms, congress centers or stations will have to go back to fulfilling the roles for which they are appointed ”, said Speranza”.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/sanita/come-si-muovera-litalia-per-la-terza-dose-del-vaccino-per-tutti/ on Fri, 05 Nov 2021 14:19:35 +0000.