Flu campaign includes smokers for first time

Flu campaign lists smokers as risk group for first timegerman knight

cvaccination campaign The flu — which will join forces with the coronavirus for the third year in a row — is coming this fall information.first Children aged 6 to 59 months identified as risk group Because of the impact of the flu on this age group, not just those over 60 and healthy, public health experts include New risk groups who should be immunized Fight viruses: smoker.

Health authorities prepare for largest flu vaccination campaign to reach 200,000 “healthy” children

This has been taken forward in the committee’s recommendations on seasonal vaccination. The public health department approved it last July. But yesterday the experts Approved Again: Smokers be formally considered “People who are at increased risk of complications Derived from influenza” and included in the groups that should be immunized.

It is estimated that in the Valencian community, approx. One in four people over 15 is a smoker; Daily or occasional consumption, according to the latest National Health Survey conducted in 2017 by the National Institute for Statistics. The Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC) has completed these data and points out in its Cancer Observatory that today there will be more than 940,000 smokers in the province, 18% of whom are Valencians.

Who should get vaccinated?

As recommendations are updated, calls for flu vaccinations grow:

• bigger From age 60: The age has been lowered by five years to match coronavirus groups and facilitate combined vaccinations.

• Children aged 6 to 59 months, even if they are healthy.YesDepending on age, the vaccine will be injected or inhaled.

• People under 60 are at risk for: Comorbidities and chronic diseases.

• smoker.

• adults and minors diabetes, obesity Illness, kidney problems, anemia, hemophilia, spleen dysfunction, liver problems, disease neuromuscularimmunosuppression, cancer, cochlear implants, Celiac disease and cognitive impairment disorders (dementia or Down syndrome).

• Minors receiving long-term acetylsalicylic acid therapy.

• people institutionalized.

• pregnant During any trimester of pregnancy.

• People who can spread the flu to people at high risk.

• staff and students at Practice in health or social care centres.

• Caregivers and cohabitants of at-risk individuals.

• timeessential service workers For example, national security forces and agencies, firefighters…

• Prison facility staff.

• People who come from poultry or pig farms and are exposed.

An American girl receives an inhaled flu vaccine, like the one she will receive in Valenciana.

This is the date when flu vaccinations will start in the Autonomous Community of Valencia

When does the event start?

Experts from the Public Health Committee met yesterday and Tuesday They decided to move a week earlier (until the last week of September) When should this immunization campaign begin?This does not mean that all autonomous regions will start vaccinations at the end of the month; There is freedom and from that day every self-government can adapt according to its characteristics.

Therefore, in the Valencian community, the Minister of Health Marciano Gómez has announced that the campaign to shelter the elderly will begin during the week of October 16, a date that is more or less considered every year.This is because Influenza usually arrives late in the Valencian region

Because good weather helps extend the outdoor season, it slows the spread of the virus, which in other years would reach a significant peak toward the end of March.