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It means that they not only protect against the most serious effects, but also prevent one person from infecting others.
VENICE. “Both Pfizer and Moderna vaccines guarantee sterilizing immunity.” It means that they not only protect against the most serious effects of the virus, but also prevent those who are infected from transmitting the infection to others. The teacher says so Giorgio Palù, virologist, consultant for the Veneto region and president of Aifa, the Italian pharmaceutical agency.
For a coverage that confers herd immunity according to Professor Palù, at least 60/65% will be needed.
Palù emphasizes that there is an “excessive alarm” regarding the English variant. One variant, however, he notes, is widespread “in South Africa, England, the Netherlands, Denmark and now in Italy.”
Finally, according to the professor, the initial data on the vaccine “indicate that it is also valid for this new English variant of the virus.”
Palù gave a real lesson in virology on the occasion of the daily press conference of the President of the Veneto Region, Luca Zaia, from the headquarters of the Regional Civil Protection, in Marghera.
According to Palù, Italy “suffers from a coronavirus infodemic.” Faced with “so much nonsense that circulates uncontrollably in the ether, serious scientific communicators are needed, as it happens abroad.” In the United States, he exemplifies, “only Fauci speaks.” «Here with us – said Palù – everyone has spoken: there is no democracy in science – he concluded – it cannot be put on a talk show. You can’t hear people mistaking an infection for a disease. ”
“It is a virus that has a low lethality – says Palù -, so speaking of the fifth, sixth, seventh wave … the important thing is that this virus mutates but has a low lethality and I do not know of viruses that have not adapted to the guest . This virus has a low lethality between 0.25 and 0.50%, it is a virus that we will find as we find ourselves flu. We cannot make real predictions, but rely on history, and this virus has characteristics that make it resemble neither Ebola, nor Sars, nor Mers, but rather pandemic flu viruses.
