Covid, Locatelli (Css): “Vaccines will be ready next spring. Buffers? It’s easy to say they need to be increased, a strategy is needed to make them”

“Covid vaccine? Realistically, I think we could start vaccines for the frail, law enforcement, and healthcare workers early next spring.. It is a tremendous result, if we think that normally a vaccine is developed and is available after five to ten years of work and not after only 12 months ”. These are the words of Franco Locatelli, president of Superior Council of Health and member of the technical-scientific committee, interviewed by Chiara placenti his Radio Inblu.

The doctor explains that the situation in March was much more serious than the current one, but stresses: “Now the situation is delicate maybe even critical then it deserves the utmost attention and alertness, but it is not likely to generate panic and terror. We are not facing a situation that has gotten out of control at all. We do not pursue a problem. We are a much better prepared country than in February-March. There is an epidemic situation that affects the entire continent. I remember that Italy, along with Germany, Finland and Greece, has the most favorable figures, in terms of contagion“.

Locatelli also responds to the virologist Andrea Crisanti and his colleagues who ask for a greater number of tampons: “The work carried out by the commissioner BowsEven with tampons, it’s great. We reached more than 165 thousand swabs, Italy is one of the countries with the most tampons in the world. Rapid antigen tests are also available at this time. The most reliable have been identified and the commissioner Arcuri will be able to guarantee the country a very important purchase from them. However, more than the number of buffers, I would talk about strategies for making buffers – he explains – because the numbers make little sense because otherwise it would become a race that would go towards self-sufficiency and would move the bar higher and higher. Saying ‘let’s buffer more’ is easy, while the discussion about developing a strategy is more complex and articulate. in terms of the country system to start the creation of these buffers and make these roads efficient. “

The president of the CSS expects a greater participation of general practitioners and gods pediatricians, so as not to overload hospitals and emergencies: “We have to give them a more important role. The logic of rapid antigen tests, in this sense, is precisely to entrust patients with the ability to perform smears. Another interesting proposal is that of Luca richeldi, an excellent pulmonologist who works with us in Css: increase the number of pulse oximeters supplied, in order to ‘screen’ all latent respiratory failure situations. Thanks to the more widespread availability of pulse oximeters, a physician can decide who deserves a referral to the hospital rather than who can be cared for at home. “

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