"The population is not aware of the risks they run with Covid. Yet Sardinia is among the first regions for infections: 250 per 100,000 inhabitants". Reeling from the data and statistics with the accompanying concern on a topic considered archived is Gabriele Mereu, head of the vaccine prophylaxis service of the ASL of Cagliari. He adds: "Fortunately, these are not severe cases as we do not have intensive care units occupied. However, we have a sharp drop in anti-covid vaccinations if we consider that, to date, we have done almost 100,000 doses of flu vaccine and about 6,000 anti-covid doses".

The doctor specifies that "the risks are no longer those of 4 years ago, but Covid is an endemic disease that recurs and that causes, throughout Italy, 50 deaths per week, with even beds occupied in intensive care".

For this reason, vaccination "is recommended for particularly fragile people, especially in this period before the Christmas holidays because we will soon reach the peak of the influenza epidemic and therefore Covid could also contribute to worsening the clinical picture".

The ASL Public Health and Hygiene service, the health company says, is open every day, every morning, both in Cagliari at the Binaghi headquarters and in Quartu Sant'Elena in the polyclinic. The anticovid vaccination can also be done on the occasion of the flu vaccination.

"The symptoms are muscle pain, chills, fever and headache," concludes Mereu, "and only the swab can make a differential diagnosis but, beyond the symptoms, it is important to get vaccinated for both epidemics. The risks are especially for people with multiple pathologies or immunosuppressed who can have cardiovascular and respiratory complications, symptoms that should absolutely not be underestimated in fragile subjects. The invitation is to get vaccinated as soon as possible, you can always get vaccinated but the advice is to get vaccinated before the holidays and the arrival of intense cold weather."

(Online Union)

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