“If only 30% will do it, you need commitment”

Published on: 12/14/2020 9:51 AM

“I think the population will require the vaccine and there will be no problems. But If after one year only 30% of the population has been vaccinated, then some type of, to stop the virus. “Thus said the Deputy Minister of Health, Pierpaolo Sileri, speaking in ‘Agorà’ in Rai 3, that” I await the results of the EMA on the vaccine. “” Certainly we will not have the opportunity to vaccinate 30 million Italians in a month: which means that we must continue to live with the virus, “he added.

The obligation in case of non-voluntary vaccination, according to Sileri, will be necessary because “we cannot allow the virus to continue to circulate. If today there is a non-vax according to which the vaccine is not needed after 60-70 thousand deaths, and my opinion will be even more until it is about the protection of the herd – reflects the deputy minister and the doctor – I feel sorry for him. ”The distrust towards the vaccine on the part of the Italians who point out the polls, he explains, is also linked to the fact that” bad talk. If you speak in doubt, if you don’t use the right words like when you say it was done, “‘in a hurry’, this may suggest that it was done wrong. Instead, we need to explain why it was done quickly.” In this way, the percentage of suspects “will be reduced.” For Sileri, in addition, “we cannot afford the risk of delays. The virus could certainly disappear, but it could also mutate making the vaccine itself ineffective,” he concludes, underlining that, in terms of safety and control of the effects of vaccines even after vaccination ”, the surveillance implemented by AIFA gives serious guarantees regarding all available medicines.

Sileri explains that he also had Covid, “I will get vaccinated when it is my turn. I suppose” but “that having had the infection I will already be among the last, and I hope that my initial dose is for an 85-year-old grandfather who likes that will be able to continue with his life and disappear naturally without Covid. ” This is what the Deputy Minister of Health Pierpaolo Sileri hopes, who in ‘Agorà’ by Rai 3 explains why even those who have already been infected with Sars-CoV-2 will have to undergo vaccination: “Certainly later, but it will be necessary to do it . a kind of reminder ”, he specifies.

As for the immunity gained by those who fell ill with Covid-19 and recovered, “it is difficult” to be certain “because the virus is new, but surely those who have had it have a kind of immunity that can be more or less strong. , more or less durable. But surely a memory will remain “of the encounter with the coronavirus” in my immune cells. How long it will last, frankly no one knows and that is why – repeats the vice minister and the doctor – that the vaccine will have to be be done even for those who have had Covid “.

As to Christmas, a penalty line must be maintained. “It is too early to make progress” on any new anti-Covid measure that is being studied for Christmas, “that would be implemented and would undoubtedly create more unrest in the population.” But “I am left with my idea: the scenario we have today, in which I hope we have all the yellow regions for Christmas, but with the closures that have been defined, including the blocking of “movements” between municipalities, remainBecause in this way “Christmas itself, even” celebrated within the confines of “the same Municipality, will bring families closer together and therefore it is inevitable that there will be a resurgence of infections”.

“If it is a small rise it will be manageable”, but if not “we will find a new peak – Sileri is convinced – that will prevent us from doing what we have to do from January: reopen schools, reopen restaurants, allow people to go to ski, to recover our life “. “Doing all this during the Christmas period is a risk,” he warns, while “doing it diluted from January 7, 8, 10 is possible, as long as the cases are not 30-40 thousand as we observed a month ago”, Sileri notes who remembers what happened in the United States after Thanksgiving. “I don’t see why we have to face a third wave,” says the deputy minister and the doctor.