School, Crisanti: “Children should wear masks even when sitting at the desk”

At school, children should wear masks even when they are sitting at the counter. The virologist is convinced of this Andrea Crisanti, Director of Microbiology at the University of Padua, among the parents of the Venetian model on tampon handling for Covid-19 in the first phase of the coronavirus emergency. “Masks are useful and they work“Explained the expert speaking with ‘SkyTg24‘. If students “keep them all quiet for hours, it’s okay to let them take them off while they’re sitting down – he observes – but I don’t see a class that is silent for hours on end. What if one has to speak to say ‘lend me the pen’, ‘hand me this’? Do we abolish social interaction in the classroom? Because when I speak – Crisanti warns – I actually drop drops, so at least the boys should have a mask available and, if they speak, they should put it on ”.

For this, “masks should also be worn sitting at desks – reiterates the expert – especially if a guy starts a conversation with another person. At school we talk. The school not only serves to learn, but it is also a field of social training to interact with others. “According to the virologist,” the capacity to supply 11 million masks has probably not yet been reached “to the school world, he announced. the government. “We will have to see if these masks really materialize every day,” he says. And in any case

“The reopening of schools and the reopening of productive activities are a fantastic opportunity to activate the transmission“From Covid-19.” And the only way we have “to control infections”, in the absence of effective drugs and even in the absence of a vaccine, are active surveillance measures, “he added, scolding the importance of increasing swabs for search for infected with the new coronavirus. “If one is sick and has a fever – warns the expert – you have to clean him, friends, family and co-workers. Each asymptomatic intercepted is a victory, so it is clear that the swabs we do now are barely enough to control the situation ”.

As to vaccine, Crisanti doesn’t think he can be ready by the end of the year. “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 given to about 100,000 people around the world. These are non-compressible times – he explains -. I understand the need and the expectation, but I don’t 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 some side effects“” It was said – he concludes – that the vaccine would be ready in December, now we are talking about the end of next year. At the end of next year it will be said in another six or seven months, because those are the times. A safe vaccine and proven effectively it will have those times. In my opinion we will have it in 2021 “.

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