Priority groups to receive doses against influenza and COVID-19 must approach or be taken to the vaccination centers enabled within the 2024 winter vaccination campaign, which aims to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with the virus, especially among groups of risks.
The ideal is for each family to approach its members who are within the prioritized group to be immunized during the campaign that has already begun and who are protected against circulating respiratory viruses.
The prevention of complications and hospitalizations due to respiratory diseases is possible with the application of the influenza and COVID-19 vaccine to people over 60 years of age and older, the Paraguayan Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology recommends.
“We have to prevent respiratory diseases in our elderly people and avoid complications and hospitalization. Let’s take advantage of the availability of vaccines, this will help a lot to prevent complications and hospitalizations,” said Dr. Mercedes Duarte, president of the Paraguayan Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology.
During the influenza vaccination campaign in 2024, quadrivalent inactivated vaccines will be administered. In addition to people over 60 years of age and older, the priority group includes: health workers, pregnant women in any trimester of pregnancy, postpartum women, children from 6 to 35 months of age (2 doses will be administered in the case of primary vaccination), cohabitants with premature newborns, cohabitants with immunocompromised.
Also people from 3 to 59 years old with risk factors (obesity, diabetes, heart disease, kidney failure, asthma, COPD, cystic fibrosis, neurological, rheumatological, autoimmune diseases, or under immunosuppressive treatment, congenital or acquired immunodeficiencies, cancer, and patients transplanted), population deprived of their liberty, indigenous population.
In addition, for the 2024 winter campaign, doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from the Moderna laboratory are available, with the updated composition. The vaccination schedule against COVID-19 will include: two doses for boys and girls from 6 months to 4 years (without a history of vaccination) with an interval of 8 weeks between doses, one dose for the population 5 years and older.
The prioritized groups for vaccination against COVID-19 also include immunocompromised people or people with chronic diseases, people over 6 months of age, health personnel and pregnant women from 20 weeks of gestation.
Both vaccines, against influenza and COVID-19, will be available at vaccination centers and can be administered simultaneously.
2024-04-08 16:06:20
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