Fourth dose, Gismondo: “Booster in autumn? With updated vaccines”

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“I remain firm on the idea” that, on the anti-Covid vaccination front, “We have to wait until September, with the new vaccines covering against the variants“of Sars-CoV-2 currently circulating and that the European Medicines Agency Ema has defined as a priority to have by September at the latest. Thus at time.news Salute Maria Rita Gismondo, director of the Laboratory of clinical microbiology, virology and diagnostics of bioemergencies of the Sacco hospital in Milan, after the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, proposed the possibility of an extended booster in the autumn with updated vaccines. When they arrive, it will be possible to “offer the population the possibility of doing them with a recommendation to particular categories: the same as for the anti-flu “therefore “a recommendation by age group and by fragility”.

SUBVARIANTS OF OMICRON – “Regarding the sub-variants of Omicron”, for example Omicron “4 and 5, we have absolutely no concrete data to be able to hypothesize anything. Certainly in autumn we expect a greater presence of the “Sars-CoV-2 virus“because this is the case for most respiratory viruses. But I believe that creating this climate of constant alarm can only do harm.”

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