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When and Where Will the Vaccination Campaign for Covid-19 and Influenza Start in Mexico City?

by Chief editor of world-today-news.com October 10, 2023

written by Chief editor of world-today-news.com

When does the vaccination campaign start?

According to the Secretary of Health of Mexico City, Oliva López Arellano, the start of the vaccination days will be simultaneous from October 16 for both Covid-19 and influenza.

Where will the vaccination against Covid and influenza be carried out?

Unlike 2021 and 2022 when mega days were held in vaccination centers located in the mayor’s offices and under a calendar by last name, on this occasion, the vaccines will be applied in 230

of the capital and the entire network of clinics of both the IMSS, IMSS-Bienestar or ISSSTE.

2023-10-10 23:25:00
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October 10, 2023 0 comments

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Decreased Demand for Covid Vaccine and Flu Shot: Impact on Health Professionals and Target Population

by Chief editor of world-today-news.com October 9, 2023

written by Chief editor of world-today-news.com

The most widespread impression among health professionals in the region is that this fall there will be a notable drop in demand for the covid vaccine, which in Asturias begins to be applied today, Monday. In the opinion of specialists, It would not be strange if the coverage of protection against the flu also decreased. Last season, both were administered simultaneously to a high portion of the population aged 60 and older and to numerous people with some risk factor, with a very proactive patient recruitment strategy. This circumstance, without a doubt, increased the influx of users.

This fall, starting today, the two jabs will be applied together to the population aged 75 and older and to people “with great immunosuppression” (with their body’s defenses greatly reduced). Meanwhile, The rest of the target population will only be offered the flu test. “With this delay, it is easy for quite a few people to end up rejecting the covid vaccination,” a person with good knowledge of the health reality of the Principality explained to this newspaper yesterday.

On the other hand, it is evident that society’s concern about respiratory infections has greatly decreased compared to previous autumns. Although it is true – and visible to anyone – that infections of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus have increased in recent weeks, the reality is that serious cases do not seem to be proliferating. On the other hand, summer temperatures like these these days tend to accentuate relaxation. The consequence of all this is that the search for protection decreases.

The delay with which those under 75 years of age will be summoned to be vaccinated against covid is striking when the Ministry of Health, in agreement with the rest of the health authorities, has been proclaiming for weeks that the joint injection against flu and covid-19 is recommended for people aged 60 years or older “due to the greater risk of complications or symptoms serious if you suffer from these infections.

Last fall, between September and December, 322,799 booster anti-Covid doses were administered in Asturias, all of them from the bivalent Pfizer vaccine. In the first quarter of this year 2023, almost 27,000 more were applied, making a total of 349,597 punctures. Coverage rates were 86 percent in the age group 80 and older; 81 percent in the 70 to 79 group; and 69 percent among the population between 60 and 69 years old.

The adapted vaccine against covid-19 that is currently available in Spain is “Comirnaty Omicron XBB.1.5”, with formulations indicated for people aged 12 and over, 5-11 years and 6-59 months respectively . Likewise, the vaccine “Bimervax” (Hipra) is available for those who cannot receive messenger RNA vaccines. Vaccination against covid-19 will be carried out “with the new adapted mRNA vaccines, except in particular circumstances,” states the vaccination guide published by the Ministry of Health.

Regarding influenza, 294,683 doses of vaccine were administered in the region last fall. Of them, 201,937 were administered to people aged 65 and older. This figure implies a coverage rate among that age group of 75.1 percent, slightly higher than the 75 percent that had been stipulated as the campaign’s objective. Before the coronavirus pandemic, Asturias – like many other territories – was for several years below 65 percent flu vaccine coverage among those over 65 years of age. The reason was obvious: the older population had lost its fear of the flu.

What continues at a low level is flu vaccination among health center staff. Last fall, 8,829 doses were administered to this group. At that time, more than 20,000 personnel were part of the staff of the Principality’s Health Service (Sespa), including permanent, interim and temporary personnel, which places coverage comfortably below 50 percent.

Vulnerability to covid mutations depends on previous infections and the vaccine

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A person’s immune response to variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, depends on their previous exposure, and differences in the approach to immune responses will help scientists understand how to optimize vaccines in the future to provide extensive protection. A study published in the journal “Science” has found that people’s vulnerability to different mutations of emerging variants of the virus differs because the variant to which a person was exposed in the first place determines the response of their immune system to the different parts of the virus and their degree of protection against other variants. It also means that the same Covid vaccine may act differently in different people, depending on which variants they have previously been exposed to and where their immune response has been focused. The discovery underscores the importance of continuing surveillance programs to detect the emergence of new variants and understand differences in immunity in the population. It will also be important for future vaccination strategies, which must take into account both the virus variant contained in a vaccine and how the population’s immune responses may differ in their response to it.

2023-10-09 02:02:13
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October 9, 2023 0 comments

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“Why Some Parents are Concerned About Long-Term Risks and Responsibility for their Children’s Covid-19 Vaccinations”

by Chief editor of world-today-news.com April 23, 2023

written by Chief editor of world-today-news.com

A recent study from the University of Southern California’s Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR) found that many parents are concerned about the long-term risks of the Covid-19 vaccine for their children, with some worrying that they will be held responsible if their child falls ill after receiving the jab. These concerns have led to low vaccination rates among children in the US, with only 39% of children aged 5 to 11 and 68% of those aged 12 to 17 having received vaccinations compared to 92% of adults. The researchers believe that addressing parental perceptions of the Covid-19 vaccine is crucial to increasing vaccination rates among children, and could lead to rates of over 50% among 5-to-17-year-olds.

April 23, 2023 0 comments

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Record Number of Galicians Refuse Flu Vaccinations Despite COVID-19 Pandemic: Report

by Chief editor of world-today-news.com April 22, 2023

written by Chief editor of world-today-news.com

Since the pandemic broke out, Galicians have been summoned to “sign” to immunize themselves against the flu three times already, while in the case of COVID, Sergas is on the fourth dose. The health administration has made them coincide when it has been able, in a 2×1, but not always successfully. In fact, the nursing staff at Sergas have had to listen to more than 88,700 noes between October last year and January this year. That is the number –specifically, 88,757– of Galicians who have refused to get immunized against the flu when a health professional has offered the injection at a vaccination point and despite being part of the target population to receive it.

The number of refusals this winter is a record and in most health areas – neither Vigo nor Lugo – the jump is “considerable”. Since the reports of each campaign make the resignations explicit, which allow us to go back to that of 2016, such a high number of rejections had not been collected. Those 87,000 resignations quite generously triple those of the previous campaign, that of the winter of 2021, when the first rebound of the post-COVID era had already been noticed, adding more than 26,500 noes.

Despite the fact that coverage for pensioners is increasing globally, these are the ones who tend to say no. Six out of ten refusals come from Galicians aged 65 and over. The noes went from affecting 3.5 percent to double, despite the fact that this is a group in which Sergas places “special emphasis”. Sanidade explains that the flu is a “preventable” disease that can “even be fatal, especially in people at risk.” In this sense, he assures that the vaccine “has been shown to be safe and effective in reducing the number of complications of the disease.”

The data from the recent vaccination campaign not only exceeds all post-COVID records, but also the highest figure to date, that recorded in 2017, when resignations had totaled almost 36,500. With the irruption of the coronavirus, Sanidade focused the promotion of immunization against the flu on emphasizing that a vaccine did exist for this ailment, as opposed to the much-sought-after one against COVID. The message of awareness permeated and, added to the fear in the new scenario, contributed to the fact that in the winter of 2020 resignations marked a minimum, less than 20,000. However, in 2021 a relaxation was already noticed and now in 2022 they have scored a maximum.

The Sanidade report justifies it in that the “joint offer” of the flu and COVID vaccine for Galicians aged 60 and over – all of them a target population – increases the number of people and, “therefore, the number of rejections registered”. He adds that another factor that may influence the “marked difference” with the previous period – there are 62,000 more resignations – is that the nursing staff, in charge of administering the vaccine, “have become familiar with the importance of recording resignations in cases relevant”. It must be taken into account that when the patient refuses to be immunized, that resignation is reflected in their electronic medical record and that is the figure referenced in the report.

The increase in refusals occurs in a context of two previous seasons with almost no presence of the disease. In the winter of 2020-21, there was no influenza activity and the following year it was “of low intensity” and the wave came “later than ever before”, as the same report points out. All in all, the behavior of the last flu season, that of this autumn-winter, and despite being also “anomalous”, points out Saúde Pública, included a wave at the beginning of the season, in October, precisely when vaccination begins, “ much earlier than usual”, and of intensity greater than that of the previous year, but less than the pre-pandemic, with type A viruses. Added to this is a second “late”, warns the Xunta, in the middle of last month , which would be similar to that of 2021 and in which type B dominates.

ICU admissions

The proportion of those admitted who required ICU this season, the report indicates, is being 6.1%, more aligned with the pre-COVID trend than last year, when they did not even account for half. This season they have needed care in Galician hospitals 1,431 patients, of whom 89 required ICU and 66 died, 11 of them due to influenzaone of them in the last week analyzed – the one that ended on April 16 – and during which 17 more admissions were reported.

The flu is not the only one that suffers wear and tear on immunization. The first memory dose of COVID achieved 95% coverage in Galicians over 70 years of age and the second is 88% in people over 80 and 84% between 70 and 79, according to data from the Ministry of Health.

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In addition to offering the flu vaccine when citizens are vaccinated against COVID, Sergas has a promotion program through calls to patients aged 65 to 74 without an appointment to get immunized. Nursing staff inform them of “the importance of getting vaccinated and the risks of not doing so. This time they only convinced 250, one in ten, the lowest percentage in three years. The unpersuaded are included in resignations.

April 22, 2023 0 comments

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