No vaccines against the flu 2020. Marek Tomków and Robert Flisiak comment

– We now have a time when patients’ interest in vaccination against influenza is enormous – admitted Marek Tomków, vice president of the Supreme Pharmaceutical Council. However, he noted that “this is not only due to the pandemic.” – A very large group of people has been reimbursed in the case of purchasing such vaccines – pregnant women, young children, people with comorbidities between 18 and 65 years of age (for these groups there will be 50 percent of the fee – ed.), And finally seniors after the age of 75, for whom it will be free of charge – Tomków enumerated.

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He added that “there is also a huge crowd of health workers who are to be covered by free vaccinations.”

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– Are these two million (vaccines) enough? Hard to say. (…) There is probably no one today who would responsibly say that there will be enough or that there will be no more – said the TVN24 guest.

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Tomków: The interest in the flu vaccine is huge, but this is not only due to the pandemicTVN24

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“We have a lot of interest, but the question is how long it will last”

Tomków reminded that “last year, about 1.5 million vaccines were used on the Polish market, and about 100,000 were disposed of because there was no interest.”

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– The fears where it is said that Poles want to get vaccinated in ten times greater number than in previous years are certainly exaggerated. It is absolutely impossible – he emphasized. – We now have a huge interest, but the question is how long it will last – he noted.

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Flisiak: Probably, there will be no vaccinations. We owe ourselves

The second guest of the program, professor Robert Flisiak from the Medical University of Bialystok said that “there are queues and there is great interest” in vaccination against influenza.

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– Probably, unfortunately, there will be no vaccinations. We owe ourselves. In recent years, we have vaccinated at a very low level, he stressed.

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– The immunization coverage of three percent (4.11 percent in the 2019/2020 season – ed.) Is one of the lowest in Europe. It is not surprising that this year we will get less of this vaccine – he explained.

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How many people in Poland get vaccinated against the flu?Specifically 24

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In his opinion, “it is a success anyway if 1.8 million, perhaps up to two million, vaccines can be obtained.”

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Flisiak noted, however, that “the vaccine is one of the elements” of protection against influenza. – If we achieve 5 percent vaccination coverage, which will probably be the peak of Poland’s supply capacity, and we will add masks in human clusters, (…) we will also have a decrease in the number of flu-like infections – he said.

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The professor emphasized that flu should be vaccinated by elderly people and health care workers. – These two groups first. And besides, according to these criteria, which are presented by the World Health Organization, basically everyone – he added.

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