The seasonal flu vaccine “will be available” and the campaign will start even earlier than expected. To reassure the availability of vaccines is the Deputy Minister of Health Pierpaolo Sileri, guest of Coffee Break its La7, after the alarms on the ventilated shortages in supplies reported by medical organizations. In June, the Ministry of Health had already extended the coverage to over 60s and planned the new distribution for October. But the surge in purchases by the Regions (+ 40%) in recent weeks had alarmed the categories, with Federfarma seeing the risk of running out for a million people.
Influenza vaccination: we start in early October, with a thousand doubts
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“We are moving – said Sileri – to improve the supply of doses of the anti-influenza vaccine and we will start the vaccination campaign even earlier. Unfortunately, there are fewer vaccinators than we would like, especially among the elderly, but this year I foresee a turnaround and this is desirable because it will help the differential diagnosis for Covid“.
Influenza, vaccines offered by the public increase. But those for those who are not at risk are scarce
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Regarding the progress of the pandemic from coronavirus in Italy Sileri defines the situation as “not critical”. “There is a condition of growth in Covid cases but the hospitals are not under stress. – added the deputy minister -. With the arrival of the cold season I believe we will see a higher circulation of the virus, but the National Health Service is in able to cope with it. I doubt that we will have a second epidemic wave as we saw it in February-March, because we have learned to live with the virus. “
“Distinguishing Covid and influenza is impossible without a swab. For this you need to get vaccinated”
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Living with the pandemic, however, means finding the key to keeping it under control, especially with the arrival of seasonal flu. “We need to do more tampons, but with judgment: a few days ago I said that we must get to do 3-4 times today’s tampons, but it doesn’t mean doing them every day, but it means having the necessary firepower when needed”, he continued Sileri -. “For example, the flu will run and in January we could have 500,000 infected people a week: we will have to make a differential diagnosis and on certain days it will be necessary to take a lot of swabs”.
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