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what will be the order of priority?

The flu vaccination campaign will begin on Wednesday, May 4. Although “there is no previous agenda”, the Director of Immunizations of the Ministry of Public Health, Gabriel Peluffo, urged that people come to be inoculated respecting the order of priority groups.

The first covers adults over 65 years of age and pregnant women; then, a focused vaccination will be carried out on health workers, explained Peluffo in first morning of Radio The Spectator. From the second week, the group includes children from six months to five years, children, adolescents and adults with comorbidities, and essential personnel. While the last stage, in the third week, it is for the general population.

In any case, the director maintained that all vaccinators were encouraged “that there were no limitations on vaccination. “Namely, if any of the people who do not respond to this category go in the first week, take advantage of the opportunity vaccination,” explained the pediatrician.

“The stock provides for populations at risk and many more vaccines for the general population,” he clarified. The doses represent a figure of 700,000 doses against the flu that “are going to be distributed these days,” said Peluffo. With them they will have public and private vaccination clinics throughout the country.

However, “beyond the 700,000 doses, the objective is the populations at greatest risk,” the director stressed.

Regarding contraindications, Peluffo explained that they are exceptional. The vaccine should not be given “people who cannot directly eat eggs or who have ever had a serious reaction to the flu vaccine”.

When it comes to side effects in general, the vaccine “can give a low-grade fever, muscle pain, some malaise, some pain in the area of ​​the pulse“, but “of short duration and that with a common analgesic is saved“said the doctor.

On the other hand, regarding simultaneity between covid vaccination and flu vaccination in adults, Peluffo pointed out that “the evidence allows safety”. Meanwhile in In the case of children, the 14-day interval between the covid vaccine and any other vaccine continues to be maintained..

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