“At the moment the FDA has said to vaccinate fragile people with the third dose of” anti covid vaccine “, after which we will see in the autumn-winter, where unfortunately I believe that there will be a tail shot of the virus and then maybe we will have to do a universal appeal. However, I imagine a perspective where the anti covid vaccine will join the anti-flu one, in the same way, that of offering the annual booster especially to people most at risk “, said the virologist Fabrizio Pregliasco, Irccs Galeazzi health director of Milan, spoke at ‘264 zoom’ on Cusano Italia TV.
Today we are starting with the immunosuppressed, which is different from what will be done in the near future in terms of recalling the people most at risk – continued Pregliasco -. It is being recognized that there is a need to do an additional dose, a three-dose schedule for immunosuppressed people and the third dose can be done already 28 days after the second because it is a confirmation and reinforcement cycle.. In the short term, however – he observes – it has already been decided to give a reinforcement, a perhaps periodic recall, therefore not the third dose in the strict sense, for the elderly, in particular those hospitalized in the rsa, for health workers, because it has been seen that after 6 months these vaccines begin to lose some effectiveness in preventing infection. This does not worry us too much because for coronaviruses not even the recovered are sure to remain protected “.