The Vaccines Commission says yes to the third dose with Pfizer. It starts in November
L’ISS follows the guidelines of the Italian Medicines Agency ea November start administering the third “booster” dose of anticovid vaccine. The recall will be a m-RNA technology, and San Marino will use Pfizer. It was decided there vaccines commission, which has an indicator of the categories concerned: over 85, fragile, immunosuppressed, “Who have completed vaccination with Pfizer and at least 6 months after the last administration,” the Director General Sergio Rabini.
Scientific confirmation of the third heterologous dose for anyone who is vaccinated with Sputnik, which is not Ema approved, uses the viral vector, the same technology as AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson, for which a third dose with Pfizer or Moderna. According to recent studies, in fact, the mix with an m-Rna vaccine it would increase the immune response. The advisor to the health minister Speranza also recommends it Walter Ricciardi, speaking of “longer coverage”. “There are already very important studies that attest that viral vector vaccines can be done in third dose even with an m-RNA vaccine, indeed this would create some advantages”.
On the third dose, reassure yourself: “There are documents approved internationally, Ema and Aifa have already started. We have no doubts, it is now established. Israel itself is one of our points of reference, this summer has already started with the third dose ”.
In the video, the interview with the General Manager Sergio Rabini