Crisanti: “A mistake is not mandatory masks if you are sitting at the counter. The vaccine? It is risky to take shortcuts”

Is the mask not mandatory if you are sitting at the counter? An error according to Andrea Crisanti, professor of microbiology at the University of Padua. “Masks are useful and they work. If we keep students quiet for hours, it’s okay for them not to wear them in class, but I don’t see a class that stays quiet for hours. In fact, we abolish social interaction in the classroom, because drops are emitted when talking. Children should have masks available and if they speak they should wear them. Masks should also be worn sitting at the desk, especially if a conversation starts. At school we talk. “

“They probably have not yet reached the capacity to supply fifteen million masks a day,” he added during his speech to Good Morning, in Sky TG24 the geneticist who also commented on the tampon situation: “The ones we do now are barely enough to control the situation. The increase in the number of tampons is something positive but we consider that the schools have not yet been restarted, that Production activities restart this week and there are millions of people entering and leaving Italy every month. Between three hundred thousand and four hundred thousand tampons a day should be enough “.

“Now the schools are opening”, explained Crisanti, “and there are about eight million children. For every child with a fever, immediately take the swab for the child, for the class, for the teachers, for the custodians, for the parents. children’s. Each generates the need to rub a hundred or a hundred and fifty. Think of the elections with sixty thousand districts with tellers and representatives of lists that are obviously exposed to the possibility of contagion. In France after the elections there was an explosion. “

Do you believe in the coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year? “No. A vaccine is an extremely complicated thing, unfortunately it does not have compressible times. The so-called safety phase of a vaccine lasts about a year and a half or two just that, because it has to be administered to about one hundred thousand people throughout the world. These are times that cannot be compressed. I understand the need and the expectation, but I would not want you to take a shortcut, because each shortcut we take increases the risk or that the vaccine is not effective or that it has unwanted effects. “

“It was said”, he concluded, “that the vaccine would be ready in December, now we are talking about the end of next year. At the end of next year we will say in another six or seven months, because those are the times. Safe vaccine, proven effectively will have those times. I think we will have it in 2021 ”.