General practitioners, therefore, can be decisive in the anti-Covid vaccination campaign. The timing of administration is still to be defined, depending on the availability of doses and priorities, to be defined on the basis of the vulnerability of patients. The Italian Federation of General Practitioners, in collaboration with Cittadinanzattiva, has taken steps to develop a platform with an algorithm capable of identifying patients who must have priority for anti-Covid vaccination, based on parameters such as age and presence of one or more pathologies. The platform will be made available to all family doctors.
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Doctors will also be able to carry out vaccinations to assisted doctors belonging to the same association, both in their own offices and at the patients' home. General practitioners will carry out the vaccinations as soon as the Astra Zeneca vaccine is available for those under 55 and which, unlike the one currently being administered, can be stored in normal refrigerators, or another with similar storage methods (sending to Regions of the Astra Zeneca vaccine is expected around 10 February).
, such as those over 80, and people with other risk factors such as the presence of one or more diseases. In the following phases, the regional and national directives of the vaccination campaign will follow. Doctors will also be able to vaccinate other patients, not in charge, but resident in the territory of their ASL, and doctors of continuity of assistance (former medical guard) will also be able to participate in the campaign. , but in asymptomatic or paucisymptomatic form. In short, if the Health Authority decided to increase this delay in administration it would be a possible choice. The type of vaccine of the first dose must be the same as the booster, or second dose: always from the scientific point of view, messenger RNA vaccines, such as Pfizer and Moderna, are not interchangeable with vaccines produced with different techniques such as AstraZeneca., provided for by the National Plan? The time schedule establishes that:
- First quarter 2021: those belonging to the three highest priority categories will be vaccinated. Translated into numbers: these are 1.4 million health workers, 570,000 staff and guests of the nursing homes and 4.4 million elderly people over 80 years old.
- By the second quarter of 2021: the 60-79 age group (13.4 million) and people with at least one chronic disease (7.4 million) will be involved.
- Between the second and third trimesters of 2021: with the increase in vaccine doses available, the other categories will be vaccinated, including those belonging to essential services (teachers and school staff, law enforcement, prison staff and community, etc.).
- Fourth quarter: the extension to the rest of the population who will undergo the vaccine, to date, by free and voluntary membership is foreseen. There are still no certain rules that oblige certain subjects to be vaccinated in certain regions or territories, and in other professional fields .
Specific exercises can be performed to overcome post vaccine arm pain.
