transmits viruses – Time

All half vaccinated in Lazio: both children and the elderly are waiting for the flu doses. And, while many grandparents are still waiting for the first appointment with the family doctor, they in turn await supplies (the total of registered vaccines as of December 5 is still 1,154,299 compared to 2 million and 400 thousand doses ordered by the Region), for grandchildren, on the other hand, there is a risk of blocking vaccination withdrawal.

And to protest against the Region are the doctors of the Italian Confederation of Pediatricians (Cipe): “There is more total chaos on the front of the influenza vaccine in Lazio: the 70 thousand new doses of Vaxigrip Tetra, which we were waiting, will not be delivered to the ASL of our Region. The Ministry of Health will make available a different quadrivalent vaccine in the form of a nasal spray, to replace the drug already administered in the first dose to our little patients, to whom we will not be able to give the expected booster dose ”. Not only that: the replacement spray, the “Fluenz Tetra, is not strongly recommended in subjects suffering from severe asthma or egg allergy – emphasizes the Cipe – In addition, those who are vaccinated with the spray could transmit viruses, by one or more two weeks after administration, to the immunosuppressed.To these enormous critical issues – continue the pediatricians – it is added that Fluenz Tetra cannot be administered to children from 6 to 24 months, to immunosuppressed of all ages and pregnant women: for All of them, to date, there is no alternative vaccine. We are in a situation of stagnation and of great concern – the pediatricians conclude -. Today we find half-vaccinated children, large groups of fragile patients who are no longer vaccinable, critical issues for those who already have low immune defenses. A dangerous, embarrassing and paradoxical situation, seriously detrimental to children, families and all public health “.

But the Region unloads on the dicastery: «The vaccine was bought by the Ministry of Health and is authorized by the bodies in charge that certify its safety. Therefore, some alarms that are circulating for no reason are unfounded. To date, there are already more than 70 thousand doses of the influenza vaccine administered by free-choice pediatricians compared to only 9,197 doses last year during the entire vaccination campaign ”. But there are still “people over 95 and 90, like my parents – protests Ugo – who have not been able to get vaccinated for 2 months because ASL Rome 1 still does not deliver the doses to their GP.”