Several people go to receive the Covid-19 vaccine at the Isabel Zendal Hospital in Madrid in a file image from March 31, 2021.
This opens the self-appointment to receive the third dose of the Covid-19 vaccine for the 40 to 45-year-old age group and the dispensing of doses begins on Thursday.
Some 713,000 citizens of the region will be able to request their appointment starting this Wednesday to receive in the network of public hospitals in the region -including the Enfermera Isabel Zendal- and in the WiZink Center with the Virtual Health Card or the website of the Ministry of Health.
In the same way, it can be carried out in the Madrid public health centers, during its usual working hours from Monday to Friday, prior telephone request by selecting the vaccination appointment option.
Teachers, members of the Security Forces and Bodies, firefighters and Civil Protection professionals can also receive the third dose regardless of their age if they have the full AstraZeneca regimen and three months have elapsed since the second occurred, or with heterologous regimen (one from Pfizer and one from AstraZeneca) if 6 months have passed and they are 40 years old.
The Minister of Health of the Community of Madrid, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, pointed out on Onda Madrid that the Vaccination Strategy for under 40s has not yet been defined but what do you expect “doesn’t take long to arrive”.
“We understand from the last debate that was generated in the Public Health Commission that the intention was to open it to all ages. It is a debate that was generated and I think that this week it will be dealt with again and I understand that it is a measure that does not it will take a long time to arrive because it is already being done in other European countries”, he clarified.
The Community of Madrid has administered 2,179,971 booster doses against Covid-19, according to the latest data published by the Ministry of Health. Generally speaking, the 92% of the population over 12 years of age in the region has the complete vaccination schedule and 93.7% have received at least one dose, reports Europa Press.
Vaccinated children
As for Pfizer’s pediatric vaccination, the number of children between 5 and 11 years old with a dose is 181,345, of the 495,000 in the region, and 195,000 self-citations have been registered.
“We would have liked to reach a higher percentage”, Escudero has indicated about that 36.5% of children vaccinated. As you said, in that age range around 10% of children are infected with SARs-CoV-2 in the last 14 days, more than 40,000, so at this time they can’t get the dose.
In any case, he indicated that the Community has set itself the goal of having the 50% of minors of that age vaccinated at the end of the month.
“It is curious and surprising that parents who have received the vaccine, because of that protective instinct, they don’t want it for their children“, has indicated Escudero, who has defended in any case that It is an act of responsibility and it is safe.
Finally, the Madrid councilor has censured the criteria for the inoculation of doses of one pharmaceutical company versus another in the vaccination strategy that, as he has indicated, is due to centralized purchasing criteria by the European Union.
As he explained, this fact is what has determined that Moderna’s vaccine is the most widely used For that third dose. “The purchase criterion has marked a large part of the strategy not only in Spain but throughout the European Union and at least deserves important reflection (…). It is clear that production marks but cannot mark in such a clear way why this strategy is being carried out”, he settled.
The Community of Madrid has also recalled the benefits provided by immunization against Covid-19, which decreases the risk of hospital admission by 78.4% and ICU admission by 85.5%.
Hospitals where it is vaccinated
Vaccination is available at the public hospitals Clnico San Carlos, 12 de Octubre, El Escorial, Fuenlabrada, Fundacin Alcorcn, Fundacin Jimnez Diaz, Getafe, Gregorio Maran, Henares (Coslada), Infanta Cristina (Parla), Infanta Elena (Valdemoro), Infanta Leonor (Vallecas), Infanta Sofía (San Sebastián de los Reyes), Universitario de Mstoles, La Paz, Príncipe Asturias (Alcal de Henares), Puerta de Hierro (Majadahonda); King Juan Carlos (Mstoles), Severo Ochoa (Legans), Southeast (Arganda), Tajo (Aranjuez), Torrejn and Villalba.
In the case of Enfermera Isabel Zendal, Ramón y Cajal, Santa Cristina, Cruz Roja and Guadarrama, it is only done to citizens over 40 years of age, and in the Universitario Niño Jesús only to the child population.
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