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Spain to treble-jab general population, starting with the 70-plus age group
07/10/2021
NATIONAL health authorities have agreed for all residents aged 70 and over to be given a third Covid vaccine dose, which will be coordinated by local GP clinics along with their annual 'flu jab, and is 'considering' extending dose number three to the population aged 65 to 69 inclusive.
These will come once the 70-plus age group have been given a third jab, and may be administered at the same time as the winter influenza inoculation, which is given to all residents aged 65 and over and to younger people considered clinically vulnerable every year.
Many of the 65-plus and 70-plus communities were initially vaccinated with the AstraZeneca or the single-dose Janssen, but their third or, in the case of the latter, second jabs will be with the Pfizer.
Studies so far appear to show that combining vaccine types – the adenovirus AstraZeneca and Janssen with the RNA-messenger Pfizer and Moderna – is safe and effective, although the regional government of Galicia voted against the move to treble-jab the 65-plus and 70-plus communities on the grounds of 'insufficient evidence' for combining immunisation types and mixing these with the 'flu vaccine.
The Greater Madrid regional government voted against on the grounds that it was 'not urgent', but the majority of Covid cases reported – now fewer than 0.06% of the national population, on average, or 60 per 100,000 inhabitants – have been in people not yet vaccinated in full, or those with compromised immunity due to health conditions or age.
Age is considered to be a risk factor across the board, not just in the very elderly or even middle-aged – a person in their 40s is thought to be more clinically vulnerable in Covid terms than someone in their 20s, and a person in their 30s more so than a teenager.
At present, an average of just over 87% of Spain's residents aged 12 and over are fully immunised, notwithstanding any decisions on the third dose – which an estimated 300,000-plus people have now received – and many regions have now comfortably broken the 90% barrier, with some up to nearly 95%.
Spain's health authority has recently announced that it hopes to have reached a decision on vaccinating children under 12 before the end of the year.
Third doses, alongside 'flu jabs, will start among the 70-plus age group from the end of October, meaning those aged 69 down to 65, in descending order, are likely to be given the option to have both of these some time in November.
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NATIONAL health authorities have agreed for all residents aged 70 and over to be given a third Covid vaccine dose, which will be coordinated by local GP clinics along with their annual 'flu jab, and is 'considering' extending dose number three to the population aged 65 to 69 inclusive.
These will come once the 70-plus age group have been given a third jab, and may be administered at the same time as the winter influenza inoculation, which is given to all residents aged 65 and over and to younger people considered clinically vulnerable every year.
Many of the 65-plus and 70-plus communities were initially vaccinated with the AstraZeneca or the single-dose Janssen, but their third or, in the case of the latter, second jabs will be with the Pfizer.
Studies so far appear to show that combining vaccine types – the adenovirus AstraZeneca and Janssen with the RNA-messenger Pfizer and Moderna – is safe and effective, although the regional government of Galicia voted against the move to treble-jab the 65-plus and 70-plus communities on the grounds of 'insufficient evidence' for combining immunisation types and mixing these with the 'flu vaccine.
The Greater Madrid regional government voted against on the grounds that it was 'not urgent', but the majority of Covid cases reported – now fewer than 0.06% of the national population, on average, or 60 per 100,000 inhabitants – have been in people not yet vaccinated in full, or those with compromised immunity due to health conditions or age.
Age is considered to be a risk factor across the board, not just in the very elderly or even middle-aged – a person in their 40s is thought to be more clinically vulnerable in Covid terms than someone in their 20s, and a person in their 30s more so than a teenager.
At present, an average of just over 87% of Spain's residents aged 12 and over are fully immunised, notwithstanding any decisions on the third dose – which an estimated 300,000-plus people have now received – and many regions have now comfortably broken the 90% barrier, with some up to nearly 95%.
Spain's health authority has recently announced that it hopes to have reached a decision on vaccinating children under 12 before the end of the year.
Third doses, alongside 'flu jabs, will start among the 70-plus age group from the end of October, meaning those aged 69 down to 65, in descending order, are likely to be given the option to have both of these some time in November.
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