Health Minister Roberto Speranza made the announcement during the question time in the House
The Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, announced that from 1 December 2021 the third dose of the vaccine against the COVID-19 will be available to all who have at least 40 years of age.
Announcement, said the minister, a further step forward: from 1 December they will be called for a booster dose even those between 40 and 60 years old. The third absolutely strategic dose for the vaccination campaign: 83.7% of people have completed the vaccination cycle. The call to date has been offered 2.4 million people. We must insist: every single extra vaccine allows us to have an extra shield.
As explained in this vademecum with questions and answers on the third dose, until now the administration of the third doses was recommended for all people over 60, for staff and guests of RSA (residential care centers for the elderly), for operators of the health professions and health care workers, for the frail even under 60 (but of age), for all immunosuppressed persons. Each Region is organized to reach these categories.
If the immunosuppressed can require the third dose as early as 28 days after the completion of the vaccine cycle (ie after the second dose), all others (of the categories mentioned above) can do so only after 6 months, regardless of the type of vaccine used.
In Italy, regardless of the vaccine used for the first vaccination cycle (Astrazeneca, Moderna, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson), only one of the two m-Rna vaccines (Pfizer or Moderna) is used as a booster dose. In the case of Moderna, half the dose is sufficient for the booster.
For all approved vaccines, protection weakens starting from the sixth month after the completion of the vaccination course, on average. This decline mainly concerns the ability to protect against infections: the vaccine protects against hospitalization and deaths, but (in part) leaves the virus a certain margin of circulation in the population. The third dose brings the protection back to optimal levels (over 95%) also with regard to infections and could even trigger a long-term memory that allows you to make other boosters not earlier than 5-10 years (as happens for other viruses and related vaccinations. known).
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November 10, 2021 (change November 10, 2021 | 16:08)
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