Starting Tuesday, October 10, Astorga Basic Health District health centers and offices will host COVID-19 and flu vaccination events. To attend, you must make an appointment.
Vaccination appointments can be requested through the usual channels, such as the Sacyl Conecta app, the phone number of your health center and the Castile and Leon Health Portal. The bulk of the vaccination campaign will take place in October, November and early December, although health centers always have a surplus of vaccine for those who wish to receive it later.
For the 2023-2024 vaccination campaign, the Department of Health will provide 805,500 doses of influenza vaccine this year, including recommendations for children aged 6 to 59 months and smokers.
Regarding the flu, the campaign targets people who are at higher risk of complications from the flu and who may transmit the flu to others who are at higher risk of complications. The vaccine is recommended for people aged 60 and over; people who have been confined to disability centers and nursing homes for five or more years, as well as other long-term institutionalized people and residents of closed institutions.
In addition, it is targeted at people under 60 years of age with risk conditions such as diabetes and Cushing’s syndrome, morbid obesity, chronic cardiovascular, neurological or respiratory diseases including bronchopulmonary dysplasia, cystic fibrosis and asthma, Being a recipient of blood products, asplenia or severe splenic dysfunction, chronic liver disease (including chronic alcoholism), severe neuromuscular disease, immunosuppression (including primary immunodeficiency and HIV infection or drug-induced immunodeficiency), and transplantation Receptor and complement defects.
In turn, it involves cancer and hematological malignancies, cerebrospinal fluid fistulas and one of cochlear implants or waiting, celiac disease, chronic inflammatory diseases, conditions and diseases that lead to cognitive impairment; Down syndrome, dementia disease, etc.), as well as pregnant women in any trimester of pregnancy and women in the postpartum period (within 6 months postpartum and not vaccinated); people living with highly immunosuppressed people; except people working in health and social care centres , as well as personnel involved in essential services, such as agents of national security forces and agencies, firefighters, civil defense personnel.
Sacyl ruled out the possibility of vaccinating the general population with the coronavirus vaccine without risk pathology and under the age of 60. If a highly pathogenic variant emerges, there will only be another scenario, which is “extremely unlikely” to occur when a given virus typically evolves toward milder forms.