COVID, “NO DATA JUSTIFICATION FOR VACCINATING CHILDREN 5-11 YEARS OLD”
“I believe that Covid is still an important health problem, but certainly no less than that silent pandemic that arouses no media interest, caused by the lack of health care generated by the Covid emergency”. Maria Rita Gismondo, director of the laboratory of clinical microbiology, virology and diagnostics of bioemergencies at the Sacco hospital in Milan, answers the request for Affaritaliani.it on why the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza held yet another press conference talking only about Covid, vaccines, third dose and Green Pass.
“I don’t know why. It is certain that among so much communication on Covid, space could also be given to the rest of healthcare, which is no less important. Do we always talk too much about Covid and other diseases? What about cancer patients? And who suffers from cardio-respiratory problems and many other problems? Thousands of surgeries still remain on the waiting list. Now they are finally resuming many chemotherapies, after some have even been suspended. We have resumed ordinary healthcare, but we are not yet equal and we have not yet recovered the services and assistance provided before the pandemic, with waiting lists for years. There is an absolute need to guarantee equal attention from the state. We need to reassure people and tell them that they will have total health back, not just Covid “.
“The data are those of the scientific institutions that have asserted that during the pandemic we witnessed a reduction of between 50 and 85% of surgical activity, 55% of cardiac surgery, 75% of trans-esophageal electrocardiograms and diagnoses for ischemic heart disease, 10% of new diagnoses of heart failure “.
Then perhaps the most delicate and painful question, for the many victims (and their families) of diseases that have nothing to do with Covid. How many people have lost their lives or will lose it to other diseases due to these delays? “The suspension of ordinary healthcare and the fear of going to hospital for fear of contagion has provoked a 20% increase in cardiovascular and general mortality“.
“The effects of COVID-19 on cancer screening and the treatment of breast and colorectal cancers roughly suggest 10,000 deaths in the next decade surplus for breast and colorectal cancer, which is equal to a 1% increase in deaths from these types of cancers. We are facing another pandemic that nobody talks about “.
And finally the increasingly concrete hypothesis of vaccinate children between 5 and 11 years old shortly. “At the moment I do not believe that the data available to us justify this type of vaccination, for at least two reasons: in that age group the severity of the disease and mortality is almost zero. Moreover, we know that herd immunity will never be achieved, so the risk / benefit ratio does not seem to justify vaccination to date “, concludes Gismondo.
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