Anti-Covid vaccination campaign: priority to vulnerable subjects. There are 6 categories that will be vaccinated as a priority in the second phase of the anti-Covid vaccination campaign. The first will be that of "extremely vulnerable" subjects for particular pathologies, regardless of age. The update of the national vaccination plan for SarsCov2 provides for this.
The vulnerable subjects
The 'extremely vulnerable' subjects are those with pathologies assessed as “particularly critical as they are related to the lethality rate associated with Covid-19”. It is about subjects with respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological conditions e disability, severe diabetes and endocrinopathies, cystic fibrosis, renal pathology, autoimmune diseases, hepatic and cerebrovascular diseases, oncological pathology, Down syndrome, solid organ transplantation, severe obesity.
This, according to the provisions of the update of the anti-Covid vaccination plan. This is followed by people between 75 and 79 years old; between 70 and 74 years. Followed by people with particular clinical risk from 16 to 69 years. Then, in the list of categories are people aged 55 to 69 without conditions that increase clinical risk. And finally, people between 18 and 54 without increased clinical risk. The mRna vaccines will go to the first 5 categories, the Astrazeneca one to the sixth.
Priority to the over 70s
Among the priority bands in phase 2 of anti-Covid vaccinations, the update of the vaccination plan also includes the over-70s (categories 2 and 3) and this by virtue of the higher lethality rate associated with Covid-19. These priority categories "are defined on the basis of the personal criteria as this variable plays a predominant role in the assessment of the risk factors of mortality associated with Covid-19".
In fact, in this age group "the lethality rate of those who come to be infected is 10 percent ". The document updating the categories and the order of priority for vaccination was prepared by the Ministry of Health in collaboration with AIFA, Iss and Agenas. The document drawn up for updating the vaccine plan was the subject of a comparison with the National Bioethics Committee. It will now be discussed in the State-Regions Conference.
Today's data
Meanwhile, punctually as every day, the Ministry of Health publishes the data concerning the contagion curve of the last 24 hours. The new positive cases of today are 10.630 (yesterday 7.970). The new deaths 422 (yesterday 307). The discharged healed are 15.827 (yesterday 15.082) while the total cases of positivity are 413.967 (yesterday 419.604). In intensive care they are hospitalized 2.143 patients affected by Covid; in home isolation they remain 392.312 virus positive people. The swabs made in the last 24 hours are 274.263.
