Health, Signorelli: “Supply opportunity for vaccines also against RSV” – Adnkronos

“I hope that there is equality in the supply of vaccines because there is a risk that there will be, and to some extent it is already happening, departments that are more sensitive to the issue, with more technical and economic resources that will making innovative proposals and other sectors that are lagging behind. behind.” He refers to what is happening with the offer of the vaccine against the respiratory syncytial virus, what Carlo Signorelli, president of Nitag – a national vaccine technical advisory group, did during the General States Active Aging, organized in Rome by Happy Aging. “Currently the National Vaccination Plan 2023/2025 is in place which would allow the vaccination calendar to be updated,” explained Signorelli. “Currently the vaccines offered are represented by the flu vaccine, the pneumococcal vaccine, the Zoster vaccine and the Covid boost in the areas of interest who are mostly old people and weak subjects. Update – it continues – possible indeed. Each vaccine that enters the Calendar becomes a mandatory standard in the national system. So the technical part can express recommendations, but then the study of the Ministry of Economy and Finance is needed, which will evaluate all the interventions that determine a new cost, a discussion that also related to vaccination against respiratory syncytial virus. In fact this is one of the vaccines that is being talked about a lot but is still off the calendar at the moment. Therefore, theoretically only the Departments that have additional economic resources could be administered. Some departments, after vaccinating children, are thinking about it, especially for the elderly and the weak.”