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Bologna, September 14, 2020 – It is time to take care of your flu vaccination. Obviously, the pandemic is due to coronavirus In fact, all doctors agree: you need to get a “normal” flu shot as soon as possible. Precisely for this reason, requests from the Regions to manufacturing companies have skyrocketed: there have also been average increases of 43%, with peaks even higher than 100%. A fact that made Federfarma say: “We will not be able to distribute even in pharmacies.” But now comes the tranquility (even if it is partial).
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“Today, at the State-Regions Conference, we signed an agreement to distribute a quota of flu shots, available for each individual Region, through the territorial system of pharmacy“, assures the president of the Conference of the Regions, Stefano Bonaccini. This is a minimum percentage, that is, 1.5 percent, (possibly increased by the individual Regions).
“Looking today at the vaccination campaign to prevent influenza, we must consider two orders of factors – explained Bonaccini -: the first is that the influenza vaccine, although not 100% effective, can help reduce the burden of disease in the population and this is even more important if we consider the case in which influenza and Covid-19 are present simultaneously in a community. Containing the number of flu cases makes it easier differential diagnosis and avoid overloading the health system. ”
The second is that every year 800 thousand citizens who do not fall within the categories for which vaccination is recommended, still turn to the pharmacist to buy the vaccine on your own.
“The only condition that we have set and on which we have had guarantees from the Government – concludes Bonaccini – is that the amount needed for the elderly (over sixty-five and for this year also from 60 years), for people belonging to categories at risk, pregnant women, essential service workers and, this year, also children between 6 months and 6 years “.
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