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The vaccination campaign against the coronavirus has also started in Piedmont. The first to be vaccinated this morning, Sunday December 27, 2020, at the Amedeo di Savoia hospital in Turin, was Giovanni Di Perri, head of infectious diseases at the Amedeo di Savoia hospital; after him it was the turn of Dr. Valeria Ghisetti, director of the Laboratory of Microbiology and Virology. The vaccine had arrived at the hospital in the morning.
“It is a very important day. They have been very hard months, especially the first because it was not clear how we would get out,” commented Dr. Di Perri after the vaccine, “2021 will have to be characterized by a much more individual and collective reaction. , organized and intelligent because it does not get out of another way “.
Then the doctor focused on the importance of the vaccine as a tool to defeat the virus: “It will take months to exploit the capabilities of the vaccine and its protective effects. At this time, the greatest effort should be concentrated in our immediate life and under the hypothesis that we cannot do what we have done so far because it is not enough. I hope that there are different solutions, such as opening everything but linking some exercises to the preventive swab “.
On the mandatory nature of the vaccine, Di Perri hopes this will not happen unless coverage is sufficient.
“This is a turning point, we see the light at the end of the tunnel,” said Luigi Icardi, Piedmont health councilor, “40,000 additional doses will arrive tomorrow. We are also organizing with other vaccine providers. It will be a vaccination campaign. epochal and there will be important hiring of personnel, a few months of suffering but we started the descent.
For the whole country and for the whole of Europe it is a little light after months of darkness. A long road, we know, but the important thing is that now the institutions accompany citizens on a path of clarity to provide all the information. necessary and proceed with the vaccination, “said Chiara Appendino, mayor of Turin,” I will absolutely get vaccinated as regards the segment of the population to which I belong. ”
