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She was invited to be vaccinated with the third dose already this Friday, but since she is currently on vacation and is not even in Lithuania, she would not have had the opportunity to do so.
A woman without any serious illness who was not at risk had been vaccinated with two doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine. He received his second vaccination on May 26.
“Isn’t it too early for the third dose?” Lina wondered.
Invitation to vaccinate
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Nelpa Mikėnaitė, press officer of the Ministry of Health (SAM), replied: we recommend that you contact the medical institution that sent you (in this case, the external consultation of the Center) for the reasons why the previous message. It is likely that a system error has occurred, but senders must identify the real reasons. “
At the same time, the Counselor recalled that, for the time being, December 23 According to the Order of the Minister of Health “On the Approval of the Description of the Vaccination Procedure of the Population with Vaccine against the COVID-19 Disease (Coronavirus Infection) of the State Budget ”, only these groups are currently approved for the COVID-19 Comirnaty vaccine:
1. patients with end-stage chronic kidney disease receiving continuous renal replacement therapy (hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis);
2. who have undergone transplants of organs or hematopoietic stem cells;
3. patients with blood diseases who are under treatment for blood diseases or their complications or who have received treatment for at least 24 months. or actively monitored for blood diseases.
As already announced in the SAM, Lithuania is one of the first countries in the European Union to start vaccinating third-risk patients with oncohematological diseases, who receive treatment for oncohematological diseases, on dialysis or after an organ transplant, with autoimmune diseases when treated with immunosuppressive therapy. .
Vaccine for coronavirus
“Revaccination will be applied after at least 6 months. After a complete vaccination cycle. Vaccination with the third dose can increase the resistance of immunosuppressed people to coronavirus infection and reduce the risk of developing severe COVID-disease. 19.
The third dose of the vaccine is given to people who have undergone transplants of organs or hematopoietic stem cells, as well as to patients with blood diseases who are being treated for blood diseases or their complications or who have received treatment. for at least 24 months. or actively monitored for blood diseases. The third dose will also be given to patients with end-stage chronic kidney disease who are receiving continuous kidney replacement therapy (hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis).
The booster dose is given to people no earlier than 180 days after the second dose if Comirnaty, Spikevax (manufactured by Moderna) or Vaxzevria (manufactured by AstraZeneca) have been vaccinated, and if Janssen (manufacturer Janssen Pharmaceutica NV) have been vaccinated 180 days after the first and only dose. The booster dose will be administered in all cases with Comirnaty at this time.
The Ministry of Health has asked medical institutions to call their patients who are recommended to receive a third booster dose of COVID-19. Patients are also invited to be active: in the near future, if they don’t get a call from the healthcare facility where the person is being treated, they call themselves and sign up for their vaccine.
Vaccines for coronavirus
After the third dose, the information will be generated in the Opportunity Passport and the EU Digital COVID certificate, and their validity conditions will not change.
In many European Union countries, a decision on third-dose vaccination has not yet been made. This practice is currently used in Luxembourg, where a third dose of Comirnaty and Spikevax is recommended for immunosuppressive patients, especially after transplantation. Since August 1, Hungary also started the third dose. This vaccination algorithm was already recognized in Israel in July.
It is likely that everyone else who wishes to receive the third dose of the vaccine will be able to start vaccination in 2021. Fourth quarter – 2022 I fourth, ”reads the SAM report.
The Delfi portal has already written that the third dose of the coronavirus vaccine has been administered to the most vulnerable patients in the Santara clinics. You can read an interview with Valdas Pečeliūnas, director of medicine at Santara Clinics and hematologist, about how they feel here.
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