Vaccination of older people begins in Aragon: “After Covid, I haven’t missed a single one”

Health workers stressed this Monday the importance of promoting vaccination against influenza and covid among people over 85 years oldcaregivers and at-risk groups. “After what happened during the pandemic, I always do it,” says Carlos Marin, 66 years old, but with previous pathologies for which it is recommended to go to a medical center for this procedure. “It’s very simple and we all help each other,” he says.

The vaccination campaign has begun in the health centers of Aragon, where vaccines against influenza and covid have begun to be administered to people over 85 years of age and, even if they are not at risk, caregivers who can also make an appointment can request an appointment, they accompany their.. Vaccinations have also begun among health workers, according to the Aragonese government’s Health Ministry.

Paula Garcia is 29 weeks pregnant and comes to the Miralbueno Medical Center a week after receiving an anti-whooping cough dose. “I’m a health professional and I always do this, now twice as much,” she says. Vaccination campaign in Aragon started October 1st for people living in residential care centers and health and social care workers; and vaccination of pregnant women.

Primary health care coordinator Natalia Fidalgo stressed that the campaign “has been very well received” despite technical problems faced by the health website and appointment booking app. “The older people have the hardest time, but they always come through in the end,” he notes.

The variant is expected to be released this fall. pyrol covid and increase in upper tract infections in general. In this sense, the coordinator of the Fidel Pages Health Center in Huesca added that flu vaccination is “very important, especially for older people due to possible complications.”