- We currently have three fully free vaccinations reimbursed for seniors. These are flu vaccination, pneumococcal vaccination and, of course, COVID-19. One would like to see more free vaccinations on the list, because after the COVID-19 pandemic, we have a surge in this part of the pharmaceutical industry, modern safe vaccines to protect seniors from common diseases, among others. This is, for example, a newer vaccine against herpes zoster, which is more advanced than the one available on the free drug list," Professor Tomasz Targowski, national consultant in geriatrics, told Medexpress in an interview.
We know that one should be vaccinated throughout life, that certain immunizations need to be refreshed every few years to remind the immune system what kind of defense response it should reproduce. This is especially important in seniors. To what extent are seniors able to carry out the immunizations that are recommended to them?
Currently, we have reimbursed three vaccinations, fully free, for seniors. These are vaccinat...
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