Fourth dose “recommended as a priority” to over 60, frail, health care workers, Rsa workers and pregnant women. Even at over 12 in the third dose
Reservations for the updated boosters of the anti-Covid vaccine will start on Monday 12 September. But who are Pfizer and Moderna’s bivalent boosters for? “They are recommended primarily to those who are still waiting to receive the second booster dose”, the so-called fourth dose, “based on the recommendations and timing already provided for the same”, therefore over 60 and people with high frailty, ” also including health care workers, caregivers and residents of residential facilities for the elderly and pregnant women “, and” all individuals 12 years of age and older still waiting to receive the first booster dose “or third dose,” regardless from the vaccine used for the completion of the primary cycle, with the timing already foreseen for the same “, reads the circular of the Ministry of Health, dedicated to the use of the new boosters adapted to Omicron.
“The objective of vaccination coverage is evaluated in the population where the booster is recommended. For the others, all over 12, the bivalent vaccine is authorized. The EMA has authorized it and can be done on a voluntary basis. In the next few days, more detailed indications will be given to the Regions on the modalities “, said today the Director of Prevention of the Ministry of Health, Gianni Rezza, at the end of the press conference at the Ministry of Health on the updating of the anti-Covid vaccination campaign.