“We don’t know if and when we will get the vaccine.”

Published on: 09/11/2020 09:17 AM

Come out of the covid emergency and stay on the sidelines, because “we do not know when we will have” a vaccine “or, unfortunately, if we will have one.” This is the warning launched by Massimo Galli, infectious diseases specialist at the Sacco Hospital-Milan State University, who spoke at ‘Agorà’ on Rai 3.

“If it is necessary to have an important and significant closure, during an important and significant period” to bend the Covid-19 curve in Italy, “it is not that immediately afterwards we can do the same as was done this summer. . Repeating the mistakes of that time would be unthinkable, “otherwise we would find ourselves again”, with the nightmare of a third wave.

“This is”, according to the specialist, “the element that really needs to be understood, but very well – Galli hopes – and that should no longer be the subject of a political push and pull of particular interests. of the country – underlines the doctor – indicates the need for planning that allows us to understand, on the one hand, how we can get out of this crisis immediately, “and on the other,” how we can continue to stay on the sidelines until something arrives that puts us in this situation. it will probably only be the vaccine, which however – Gall recalls – we do not know when we will have it, nor unfortunately if we will have it ”.

Relying on the vaccine as the ‘final solution’ against Covid-19, “today would be like going to battle expecting to have a weapon in hand that will arrive in an indeterminate number of months,” he adds, commenting on ‘Agorà’ in Rai 3. Words of the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza. The massive distribution of the vaccine “will surely occur at the end of the first quarter or at the end of the first quarter of 2021”, he expected yesterday in ‘Half an hour more’.

“Either we have data,” the doctor warns, “or we have to refer to lucky charms like my grandson’s red squirrel. They are auspices ”, he explains. “I am totally in solidarity with some auspicious positions – specifies the expert – but we cannot wait for a result that we do not know if it will materialize and when it will materialize.”