It was just over twenty minutes after 11:00 a.m. this Monday, Antonio Saura’s house in the Actur neighborhood of Zaragozawhen Isabelle has been vaccinated against influenza and COVID-19.One on each arm.This is how Aragon’s campaign against these respiratory infections begins this year, with the aim of Immunize senior center users and their social and health staff within the first two weeks. Starting October 16, self-service appointments at Salud Informa will gradually be opened to other groups, with priority given to the elderly.
prepared Nearly 400,000 doses of flu vaccineAccording to the details of the head of the Prevention and Promotion Service of the Ministry of Public Health, Begonia Adigo. The same is expected to be true for COVID-19, which has become another seasonal virus, although the Ministry of Health distributes these on a weekly basis.
The main question is what the next few months will look like.Consider changes in incidence rates of the virus since the pandemic. Take last autumn and winter as an example, The development of the epidemic is not a peak but a plateau. It extends over several months and reaches its peak in the tenth week. That is March, with the change of seasons, heading towards spring.
“Crystal ball, we don’t have one“Declared Begogna Adigo. What is known is how the season started,” Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI) (which also includes COVID-19) “rebounded slightly,” “but not significantly”. The goal is also clear, which is that in addition to reaching the target groups of nursing homes and the elderly, public health authorities also insist that health workers be vaccinated.Furthermore, as department officials already explained last week, the new activity makes Attracting smokers as a dangerous group.
Preventing ‘Excellent Spreaders’ of Flu in Children
Starting from this Monday, Children aged 24 to 59 months can get the flu vaccinevia “intranasal spray”. They are ‘excellent spreaders of viruses’In Adiego’s words, once the health center began recruiting, he confirmed the initiative was met with a “good response.”
Starting from newborns, children are also the protagonists of this respiratory syncytial virus immunization campaign. It’s one of the novelties in the department, after a previous winter saw people hospitalized and even in intensive care units with the pathology, which can lead to bronchiolitis. Newborns and babies under six months will be vaccinated in hospitals from Sunday 1 October. That is from April 1st to September 30th of the same year.