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“Doctor, but when does the flu shot arrive?” Asking the GP now are people who “before we had to pursue to get it” or those who, by not falling into the most fragile or chronically ill categories, usually did not do so. People who now, in times of Covid-19, would like to have it – because, as specialists explain, receiving a vaccine means activating the immune system and better defending against all infections, including Covid – but the risk is that the doses are not there. for everyone. There will be 18 million doses that will go to the National Health Service, 6 million more than last year, but pharmacists run the risk of running out of supplies: one and a half million vaccines are missing to distribute in …
“Doctor, but when the Flu vaccine?To ask the GP now are people who “before we had to pursue to get it” or those who, by not falling into the most fragile or chronically ill categories, do not usually do so. People who now, in times of COVID-19, I would like to have it, because, as the specialists explain, receiving a vaccine means activating the immune system and better defend yourself from all infections, Including Covid, but the risk is that the doses are not available to everyone. They will be 18 million doses that will go to the National Health Service, 6 million more than last year, but pharmacists are at risk of running out of supplies: one and a half million vaccines are missing to distribute in pharmacies. And, approximately, the flu vaccination campaign will open in a month and a half with a free vaccine that is highly recommended for people over 60 and children up to 6 years of age, as well as for ‘fragile’ people.
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“The vaccine runs the risk of becoming what masks and gloves were” at the beginning of the epidemic, he explains bluntly. Silvestro Scotti, National Secretary of the Federation of Family Physicians. “I was the first to say it. It was April 5 and I urged all the Regions to bid to win the vaccine doses, some have advanced, such as Lazio, Campania and Puglia, others have lagged behind, such as Lombardy, which only provided in June, and others perhaps, they will have to be covered with the surpluses of the other Regions. It is important to have a follow-up to know how many vaccine quotas arrive in the country, the number of vaccine doses ”.
The risk is, in fact, that even a healthy citizen who has always been vaccinated will find it difficult to do so because there are no doses to buy at the pharmacy (for the GP to inject).
Complicating the situation is the time factor. According to family doctors, no region will have vaccines available “until the third week of October.” “It’s late, everything must be advanced until the end of September“Observes Scotti, because in times of Coronavirus, the flu vaccination will no longer be the same as before. Forget the vaccination sessions with thirty, forty patients at a time, just think, data from Fimmg, that of 10 million vaccinations in Italy 6 -7 thousand are done by family doctors-, distances and collection prohibitions must be respected.
It is true, epidemiologists explain, that theVaccine production cannot be increased from time to time. Therefore, it will not be possible to infinitely expand the number of doses in circulation. But “getting vaccinated is always important and now it’s even more important,” he explains. Paolo Bonanni, Professor of General and Applied Hygiene at the University of Florence. A vaccine that this year is also strategic because “the flu and Covid have a overlapping symptomatology and a doctor who is caring for a patient with a cough, fever and cold if he knows that he has received the flu vaccine, even if it is not 100% effective, will be able to see other pathologies ”. The last few months have shown that a faster diagnosis allows you to access specific treatments sooner, to isolate the case, trace contacts and have more reassuring final results. But that’s not all. “There is a study, which still needs a lot of evidence, on the basis of which it seems – adds Bonanni – that those who have had the seasonal flu have more receptors for Covid” Influenza virus facilitates entry of Sars-Cov2. The third reason is that “all viruses can favor the overlapping of bacteria, viruses are criminal associations, the less the better”, concludes Bonanni.
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