We now have a huge interest in influenza vaccination, but the question is how long it will last, said Marek Tomków, vice president of the Supreme Pharmaceutical Council, in “Fakty po Faktach” on TVN24. According to professor Robert Flisiak from the Medical University of Bialystok, “there will probably be no vaccines” due to the low vaccination coverage rate in Poland in recent years.
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Vaccination against the flu is important to facilitate the fall’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Their application is one of the points strategy prepared by the Ministry of Health. Minister Adam Niedzielski assured that the government would try to do everything to ensure that the number of vaccines available to Poland was as high as possible.
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However, pharmacists report that the demand is very high and there is a problem with availability. Deputy Minister of Health Waldemar Kraska assured on Thursday that “There will be enough vaccines for everyone who wants to get vaccinated against the flu”.
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Pharmacists sound the alarm: there are no flu vaccinesTVN24
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Tomków: the interest is huge, but this is not only due to the pandemic
The guests of “Facts after Facts” on TVN24 discussed flu vaccines on Thursday.
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– 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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