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Influenza. The vaccination campaign is just around the corner. But who, how and where Should (or should) get vaccinated? Questioning that the emergency COVID-19 ongoing, it becomes even more urgent. At the top, in the list of those who are part of the vaccinable army, are the sick with chronic pathologies me gli over 65 years. But given the pandemic emergency (in order to avoid the concomitance of flu symptoms with those of Covid in the winter season, as well as the jamming of the emergency room and health services), there are different ranges for which recommends flu vaccination. . From children 6 months to 6 years and up to all subjects from 60 years.
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THE PROTECTED BANDS
For the so-called “fragile” population categories, the vaccine is free. These are the chronically ill and the elderly over 65 years of age. However, the circular of the Ministry of Health for the 2020-2021 flu season provides for the extension of the recommendation to the vaccine from the age of 60. The vaccination, it is specified, “can be offered free of charge in the age group 60 to 64 years”, while until now it was free from 65 years. For protected categories, vaccination is requested by the family doctor or pediatrician and is carried out in the same medical offices.
The circular of the Ministry of Health
THE CHILDREN
Referring to children, for whom vaccination is currently recommended under particular conditions or if they suffer from particular pathologies, the circular emphasizes the opportunity to recommend vaccination in the age group of 6 months to 6 years “also to reduce the circulation of the virus of influenza among adults and the elderly in the current pandemic phase ”.
HEALTH PERSONNEL
The flu vaccine is also strongly recommended for health and social health professionals who work in contact with institutionalized patients and elderly in residential or long-term care facilities. This in the perspective of a legislative initiative that makes it mandatory.
PREGNANT WOMEN
It is appropriate, says the ministry, “to sensitize both general practitioners and gynecologists and obstetricians about the importance of influenza vaccination in pregnant women,” recalling that vaccination is offered free of charge. In its most recent position paper on influenza, the WHO considers pregnant women to be “the most important risk group for themselves and the fetus.”
WHERE TO BUY THE VACCINE
All citizens from 6 to 60 years old who want to be vaccinated, but are not within the protected ranges, can buy the vaccine in pharmacies with a prescription from the family doctor and carry out the vaccination in medical offices.
THE COVERS
According to the WHO, influenza vaccination should have a minimum coverage objective of 75% and 95% as an optimal objective in those over 65 and at risk groups.
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