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“Right now, the pressure on hospitals throughout Italy is terrible: in just one month, 27,000 doctors and nurses were infected, 900 a day, if this pressure continues, it not only makes it impossible to treat patients but also leaves the first line “. . That is why “it is absolutely necessary to limit mobility as much as possible and do only the things that are really needed, everything else for the next month must be absolutely limited”. Walter Ricciardi, professor of hygiene at the Catholic University and consultant to the Ministry of Health, said so during the broadcast of Agorà on Rai 3.
“The measures are working because they are a function of the different epidemiological situations”, but “we must persevere”, Ricciardi said later, underlining that “we have reversed the increase, now we hope that the curve will flatten”, but only “when there is. “. a real decrease in cases, we can speak of reopening or returning to a more normal situation ”. “What is really worrying,” Ricciardi said, “is a significant increase in hospitalizations in the emergency room and in subintensive care, and deaths: these are the main data that we must look at and that still show that we must be calm for at least a month. and lucid and knowing that we have to face all this. “In today’s Italy, he said,” we are not in a second wave but in the second phase of the first because, unlike China, we have never zeroed infections ” Regarding the 21 indicators for monitoring the regional situation, he states: “everything can be improved, it is a war and the weapons must be adapted.” What we have to invest in now is “very aggressive tests and monitoring to limit outbreaks and a blockage when we lose control. “
“We have to wait for the companies to officially submit the data to the EMA and the FDA and I hope their data is confirmed by the official authorization.” But “there is no doubt that the Covid vaccine will be evaluated like all vaccines in the past, first for its safety and then for its protective ability,” Ricciardi added. For the distribution chain, “the regions will choose, depending on size and logistics, the best way. The smallest could have a single hub and then the facilities where the vaccines are made, for the largest there will be more. But Italy has all the ability to do this distribution plan well. “
Regarding the compulsory nature of the vaccine against Covid “for the moment I have advised the minister to provide voluntariness for adults” but “if we understand that coverage of 90-95% is needed to obtain herd immunity, without which we would face the need to block productivity and mobility for the country, we could, due to force majeure, also evaluate the obligation “, said Ricciardi.” I believe – he concluded – if it is properly explained that this vaccine is safe and that it is the only way to return to normality, people will be convinced ”.
