“In favor of the third heterologous dose”
At the press conference the medical director Iss, Sergio Rabini, detects one growth phase of infections and gods hospitalizations in hospital, especially in the last weeks, so about a month after school starts. “If we continue like this – he says -, we will overcome the peak of infections of the third wave e we can’t afford it“. Rabini anticipates that the vaccines commission will meet on November 3 will ask the government as soon as possible, the obligation of the mask indoors. Habit – he underlines – never abandoned inside the premises of the Social Security Institute. After thanking all the people who have undergone the anti-Covid vaccination, Rabini notes that there have been eight cases of reinfection after four, six or nine months. These are people of different ages. This is why the third booster dose is considered necessary for everyone. And opens to heterologous vaccination, therefore a different vaccine than that administered in the first two doses: “It is more effective than the homologous one”, affirming, specifying. “We are just waiting for the green light to the heterologous bureaucratic authorizations and not sanitary “. However, the health director of the ISS does not rule out one third dose of Spuntik: “Given the good relations with our Russian colleagues, we are talking with Gamaleya, but we still do not have defined protocols and certainties on the matter”. For the moment – he adds – “we have planned to Pfizer tariff on Pfizer, but the third heterologous dose – he repeats – is much more effective than that made with the same vaccine “. In view of the next long weekend, Rabini asks to avoid gatherings and to never announced the guard.
“San Marino has achieved its important immunity – he explains Pierluigi Arcangeli, responsible for the territorial Covid group -, with over 82% of the population vaccinated, but there are several factors that have caused infections to rise ”. Starting fromarrival of the autumn season – “Covid is a reported virus, so it is well with the immune system” in Emilia-Romagna, already reported a variant of the variant. And still thesettlement of the – “that are not eternal” – for quantity and quality, e more “relaxed” use of protection devices. “So it will be a third dose is needed”Says Arcangeli. “What matters ultimately is the response of the healthcare facility as a whole,” he explains. The hospital must be flexible and ready to open isolation pavilions in a few hours. As long as it is possible – he explains – it is good to leave the virus out of the hospital. The covid group, in any case, it has never been dismantled and now, with cases on the rise, it has been “awakened”.
He then takes the floor Agostino Ceccarini, head of Uoc Primary Care and the vaccination campaign. Regarding the third dose, he specifies that “the intention is to vaccinate everyone, starting from the most exposed and fragile categories “. “A heterologous vaccination – he notes – has already been done in Italy” and gives the example of those vaccinated with the first dose of Astrazeneca, which is based on adenoviruses, which they then made Pfizer or Moderna, then m-Rna. And the same will happen for Johnson & Johnson. Although doses have already been administered to the guests of the RSA La Fiorina and to healthcare professionals, theofficial start of the vaccination campaign with the third dose is November 8th. Also in this case it will be held in the two vaccination points already set up, therefore on the -1 floor of the hospital and in the Azzurro center. The Cup will manage the reservations. “We ask the population to stabilize this vaccination campaign as well,” he adds. By conforming to Italian vaccinations, concludes Ceccarini, we will ask that the green pass San Marino may be worth 12 months. Finally a clarification: in the same session it will be possible to do the flu shot – “whose dedicated campaign got off to a good start” – than the anti-Covid call.