The Public Health Commission analyzes this Tuesday the flu and covid-19 vaccination recommendationsas well as the immunization against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) of babies up to 6 months for next campaign that starts in October.
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The meeting of the general directors of Public Health of the Ministry of Health and the communities will begin at 10:30 with an analysis of the situation in which the company finds itself. covid-19 after the new summer rebound and the evolution of variants in circulation.
The incidence of covid continues to rise in the State, with the highest rates in children under 4 years of age
Then, according to the agenda, they will address the recommendations and the start day of the vaccination campaign against covid-19 and flu – which since 2021 has been carried out jointly– and the first immunization against the RSV that causes bronchiolitis, in whose organization all the communities have been working for a long time.
Some, like the Valencian Community, have even given the date on which the double campaign will begin: October 16.
Priority groups
Regarding the joint covid-flu campaign, in July, the Commission approved the document “Vaccination recommendations against flu and covid-19 in the 2023-2024 season in Spain”, in which the target groups were established.
Is about those over 60; people over 5 years old in nursing homes and disability centers, as well as other people institutionalized for a long time and residents in closed institutions; under 60 in risk conditions, pregnant in any trimester of gestation and women during the postpartum period and cohabitants of immunosuppressed.
He too staff of health and social health centers public and private (except students for whom only flu vaccination is recommended) and essential public service workers“with special emphasis” on the security forces, firefighters and civil protection services.
In addition, the flu test is recommended for children from 6 to 59 months and people from 5 to 59 years old with a higher risk of complications – those between 5 and 18 years old who receive prolonged treatment with acetylsalicylic acid and smokers -, students in internships in health and social health centers and people with direct occupational exposure to animals or their secretions on poultry, pig or mink farms or farms or to wildlife.
The document stressed that, according to the epidemiological situation and the acquired immunity of the population at that time, “vaccination against covid-19 would not be justified in people not included” in these groups.
Vaccines
And he made it clear that “it will be carried out preferably with new adapted vaccines”; Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax work on them, although for now only the first, known as Comirnaty Ómicron XBB.1.5, already has the support of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the European Commission.
Meanwhile, the first immunization campaign against RSV will prioritize at-risk babies – premature babies of less than 35 weeks, with severe immunosuppression, with Down syndrome or in palliative care, among others – and then those under 6 months at the beginning. or during the virus season, that is, those born between April 1 of this year and March 31 of next year.
Another questions
Apart from all this, Health and communities will address the update on health alerts, such as botulism that broke out at the end of July due to the consumption of packaged potato tortillas, vector-borne diseases and the situation of the cancer screening program in the National Health System.
2023-09-12 05:21:28
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