The last seven communities that were missing to join the campaign simultaneous flu and Covid-19 vaccination iThey will begin the process this Monday. These are, specifically, Madrid, the Valencian Community, Castilla-La Mancha, Extremadura, Navarra, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands. The rest of the regions will expand immunization to other target groups after having finished in residences.
This third season of joint flu and covid-19 vaccination is marked by the limited availability of the sera updated to the subvariant of ómicron XBB.1.5which are reserved, mainly, for the vulnerable population.
Should healthcare workers get vaccinated against flu and covid?
In this way, the population will be prioritized over 60 years old and those who are over 5 and are inmates in centers of disability and residences. People with other previous pathologies such as diabetes, kidney failure, morbid obesity or chronic cardiovascular, neurological or respiratory diseases, pregnant women or cohabitants of immunosuppressed patients, among others, will also be vaccinated; and it is recommended to the staff of centers and health and social health establishments and workers in essential public services.
Apart from the joint, the flu test is recommended, for the first time, for children from 5 to 59 months, as well as people from 5 to 59 years of age with higher risk of complications -patients from 5 to 18 years old on prolonged treatment with acetylsalicylic acid due to the possibility of developing Reye’s syndrome and smokers- and pregnant women.
Finally, students should put it on in practice in health and social health centers and people with direct occupational exposure to animals or their secretions.
This is how each community will be vaccinated against flu and covid
The Madrid’s community Vaccination begins this Monday in the population of the residences, those over 65 years of age and health and social health personnel and, once completed, it will be expanded to the rest of the groups. The process will be carried out again in nursing homes, Primary Care centers and the Community Vaccination Center.
The Valencian Community It will also begin in centers for the elderly and people with functional diversity and professionals from social and health centers and, in the case of the flu, also with children and pregnant women. Already in November, simultaneous vaccination of people aged 60 to 79 is planned.
For its part, Castilla-La Mancha nor has specified the specific date on which it will kick off its winter campaign, but it will be this week.
With the objective of achieving 75 percent coverage for the elderly and health and social health personnel and exceeding 60 percent for pregnant women and people with risk conditions, Estremadura It has 50,000 doses of the updated Pfizer serum and 100 of Hipra’s for those who are contraindicated with the previous one.
This Monday, Navarra It will administer the two vaccines to the 160,000 people aged 60 or over and the more than 7,500 people with diseases considered high risk that it began to mention on the 3rd by SMS; with health and social health professionals will begin on October 23.
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2023-10-15 16:00:45
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