Chrysants: “3rd-4th dose last a few months: recovering from Covid better than the vaccine”

Andrea Crisanti: “Even third and fourth doses lose effectiveness. We do smart working and protect fragile people, even with subsidies for carers”

Is it too early to get out of the Covid emergency or is it taste like this? This is the basic question that Simone Spetia asks Andrea Crisanti, interviewed live in Radio 24.

The professor of microbiology and chemical microbiology at the University of Padua recalled that he “said from the beginning that the moment when the curve fell was the moment when we had the maximum protection, because even if the vaccine protects against the most serious complications, it has a rather limited duration. Studies have now come out on about 800 thousand cases that show how also the third dose after 3 months has a limited effect “.

So what to do? “I believe that we need to change the paradigm, protect the frail“, explains Crisanti” because the deaths we still have are people who also had the vaccine but were already fragile. So we have to do make smart working for those of working agewhile those who don’t work and stay at home need that we create a filter: between those who are well, and if they become infected, nothing happens to them, and fragile peoplethat if they become infected they have serious consequences. For example, a subsidy to the poorest groups to afford caregivers who do tampons frequent. “

On the fourth dose, Crisanti says that he will make it “because I’m old now, but if one is fragile it remains so even with the third and fourth dose. If someone is fragile or immunosuppressed, you can do as many doses as you want but they are always susceptible “.

And the maintenance of the quarantine only for those who are infected and not for contacts? “At these levels of transmission, with this variation, which has a transmission index of 12, with most people asymptomatic and that if they become infected they do not even notice it, the impact of the forties is limited. Things have completely changed since the beginning. “That is?

“Yesterday”, specifies Crisanti “15 thousand people were vaccinated and 80 thousand infected. Most of them will recover and develop better immunity than the vaccine. At first, with the Wuhan variant, without vaccine, I was in favor of strict restrictive measures, but now we must change our approach and protect the fragile, allow him to lead a normal life safely. Otherwise the average life is lowered “.

Are you saying that getting the disease now, with this new variant, is better than the vaccine? “In all diseases it is like this. Few vaccines are better than the disease, only yellow fever comes to mind. Now the real challenge is to protect the frail: the fourth dose is fine but it must not be an alibi for not doing other things “.

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