More than 40,000 people in Castile and Leon vaccinated against influenza

“The promised doses did not arrive at the right time and we prefer to postpone the vaccination so that users only receive one visit. Therefore, I will not talk about the big problems, but only the ones that did not meet expectations,” said Health Minister Alejandro Lo Vázquez explained after touring the “nursing trailer” promoted by the University Nursing Organization. Stop in Valladolid.

At this point, activity in the residential area is effectively over. Target groups can request an appointment through the usual channels, such as the Sacyl Conecta app, the phone number of its health center and the Castile and Leon Health Portal. The bulk of the vaccination campaign will take place in October, November and the first half of December, although health centers always have a surplus of vaccine for those who wish to receive it later.

For the 2023 to 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 immunodeficiency caused by HIV infection or drugs), and Transplant recipients and complement deficiencies.

In turn, it targets patients with cancer and hematological malignancies, cerebrospinal fluid fistulas and cochlear implants or waiting for them, celiac disease, chronic inflammatory diseases, disorders and diseases causing cognitive impairment; Down syndrome , dementia, etc.), as well as pregnant women in any trimester of pregnancy and women in the postpartum period (within 6 months postpartum and without vaccination); People living with someone who is highly immunosuppressed; Except working in health and social care centres personnel, 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.