"Many, many patients, but also colleagues, are bombarding us with questions about the updated" anti-Covid "vaccines, those approved last week and those that will arrive very soon. There was a communication problem on this issue, it is useless to go around it. ".
This was stated by Pier Luigi Bartoletti, deputy national deputy secretary of
Fimmg
, the
Italian Federation of family doctors
, a few days after the start of the bookings for the recall with the vaccines updated to Omicron 1 and
the possible
green light today
for Aifa to vaccines adapted to Omicron Ba.4 and Ba.5
.
"To date there is no queue outside the clinic to get the call back. Many people had the disease between June and July, so now they can't do the booster because the 120 days have to pass. Here it should be clarified that the problem is not it is fourth or fifth dose, but that
the booster with the updated vaccine must be done by people, elderly or not, who have other diseases or a weakened immune system
. They do not have to wait for the latest update ".
And while we wonder about the opportunity of the booster, there are also the results of a study that compares the impact of mRna vaccines and that of Covid on male fertility.
According to andrologists, there is therefore no demonstrated link, at the moment, between the third dose of vaccine for Covid-19 and male infertility.
Conversely, getting infected with Sars-CoV-2 can affect male fertility for weeks or months after healing, compromising sperm DNA by up to 80%.
These are the preliminary results of a study by the EcoFoodFertility Project, presented at the Congress of the Italian Society of Andrology (Sia), in Bergamo until 15 September.