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Milan, November 20, 2020 – While Commissioner Arcuri promises “Vaccine for COVID-19 on a large scale by 2021 “and further imagine a ‘license’ for the vaccinated, the scientific world is divided in the opportunity of get vaccinated against the Coronavirus. As if we needed another confrontation between virologists, immunologists and various experts.
The Covid newsletter of November 20
Crisanti: I don’t get vaccinated
The statement of the estimated yesterday set fire to the wicks virologist Andrea Crisanti: “Usually takes 5 to 8 years produce a vaccine – is the reasoning – To do this, without data available, I would not have the first vaccine which should arrive in January. Because I would like to be sure that this vaccine is adequate tested and meets all safety criteria and effectiveness. I have the right to it as a citizen and I am not willing to accept shortcuts. ”
Then specify: “I am very favorable to vaccines, but these we are talking about have developed skip the normal sequence of Phase 1, Phase 2 and Phase 3. This happened because they had state funds and therefore could afford to go through all three phases together because the risks were borne by those who gave the money. But doing the three phases in parallel, one carries with him all the problems of the different phases ”.
So right now, according to Crisanti, 66, “we don’t have a real weapon at our disposal.” And the solution is to create “a network of laboratories in Italy capable of carrying out hundreds of thousands of tests”.
Very tough bassetti
The most difficult is perhaps the infectious disease specialist. Matteo bassetti, from the San Martino Hospital in Genoa: “Professor Crisanti’s statements about the anti-Covid vaccine are very serious. I think that the entire scientific community should distance for what he said. This is his thinking and he must assume all responsibilities at a time when the country needs to be united ”.
Then the provocation: “If my colleague Alberto Zangrillo or my colleague had said something like that, what would have happened?” Asks Bassetti who adds: “I would get vaccinated today. I have always been vaccinated in my life. They will do it my collaborators, who cannot wait. The microbiologist Crisanti is very good, but he is not in the field and shows us that we take risks every day, we wait for the vaccine and we are happy. “” The government – said the infectious disease – must distance itself from what Crisanti said.
Lopalco: attentive to communication
To pull the colleague’s ear arises Pierluigi lopalco, epidemiologist and health advisor from Puglia, who from the La7 microphones says: “Be careful with communication” about the anti-Covid vaccine. His position is diametrically opposite: “I I even offered to be part of the experiment.. So it is out of the question that I will not receive the vaccine. “
Viola: I’d be happy to get vaccinated in January
The immunologist is also in the line of Lopalco Antonella Viola: “If in January I was called to get vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine, I would have no doubt and I would be very happy to get vaccinated. And not because I am unconscious or unconscious, for exactly the opposite reason: I have studied the vaccine, I know how it is made and how it worksI followed the experimentation and I know the strict rules that will lead (hopefully) to approval. Knowledge frees you from the fear of the unknown, “he wrote in a Facebook post.
Zaia: I do the vaccine
The vaccine in January? “Personally I do it, little but sure, but by January we will have at least six different vaccines in the square. It is not mandatory so I tell the non-vax to have security but to leave freedom to whoever wants to do it without having their comments. Imagine the world with the vaccine: I think we will have a health passport. Today they ask you for the test, tomorrow they ask for the vaccine “, says the president of Veneto Luca Zaia referring to the recent statements of ‘his’ expert Professor Crisanti, with which it has been in controversy for a long time.
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