Covid, Crisanti on vaccine controversy: “Storm in a glass of water. Couldn’t be further from the position of a no vax”

“The controversy over my claims about the covid vaccine? A storm in a glass of water. Let’s be clear: Regarding the flu vaccine, I’ll be the first to vaccinate and fight whether the vaccine will be approved by regulatory bodies, the data will be made available to the scientific community and we will all be satisfied ”. Thus a “Work in progress” (Radio Radio), the virologist Andrea Crisanti, Professor of Microbiology at the University of Padua, defends himself from the controversy that broke out yesterday after his speech in “Focus live”, the “Focus” science popularization festival.

Crisanti, who never hid his skepticism towards the vaccine Pfizer, Explain: “Mine was a provocative answer to a provocative question, made on the basis of claims exclusively related to marketing interests of the companies that had announced the vaccine. And based on these company claims, I said I don’t make the vaccine, but that I hope the scientific community and regulatory bodies show that it is effective. My statements need to be contextualized, because I simply said that at this time there is no data needed to support both the efficacy and safety of the vaccine. This data has not been seen by anyone. The criticisms of Sileri and Locatelli? They obviously haven’t read or heard what I said“.

And adds: “It couldn’t be further from the position of a no vax. I was one of the first to launch the flu vaccination campaign.Imagine if I can take a position against the covid vaccine. I have no doubt that we must be more terrified of covid than we are of the vaccine. However, if we play all our cards in the vaccine, everything must be done in a transparent way and that everyone, especially skeptics, has the opportunity to see first-hand that it is effective that there are no side effects. And I will say more – he says – perhaps my adherence to the vaccine in those conditions is worth much more than not to have immediately said ‘yes, yes’ like a sheep, because generally you say that you will receive the vaccine, but not if you receive it. Without a doubt I am one of those people who asked for transparent criteria of validity and, if there are any, I will get vaccinated ”.