Vaccination obligation against Covid for the most at risk and rapid stop tampons. This is the position expressed by the microbiologist Maria Rita Gismondo. “We risked blocking Italy, both professionally and socially, even in essential services, due to a syndrome that today is really poorly pathogenic in vaccinated people. It would have been absurd,” Gismondo told Adnkronos Salute, following the green light in the Council of ministers to the new anti-Covid measures.
Could more have been done? “I would have completely removed the possibility of making quick swabs, not very reliable“, replies the director of the Laboratory of clinical microbiology, virology and diagnostics of bio-emergencies of the Sacco hospital in Milan. And then” I have always said that, beyond the Green pass and Super Green pass issue, which in fact is a vaccination obligation called otherwise, the government, in a more direct way – he reiterates – should have to impose the vaccine obligation at least in the fragile groups and in the ages and categories most at risk of serious disease“.
Well then, for the expert, the revision of the rules on quarantine and tampons which “are useless by now – she specifies – except in symptomatic cases”. As for rapid swabs in particular, “certainly they do not lead us towards a containment” of the infections “because the results, some falsely positive but above all many falsely negative, do nothing but spread the infection by subjects who feel calm and they involve negatives “even though they may not be negative.
With regard to smart working, a tool reintroduced in some countries, “absolutely not”, says Gismondo who considers it “a disaster in the public administration, a disaster at work, psychologically and also economically due to the relapses it has. It is necessary to vaccinate – he exhorts – and above all to check those vaccinated beyond 150 days, because many people vaccinated last February-March believe they are still be covered and it is not true, as shown by the data from the Higher Institute of Health “.
“The virus is running, but fortunately at this stage it is becoming endemic“thanks to the spread of the Omicron variant, explains Maria Rita Gismondo.” The escalation of infections will continue for a while and then, as is natural, it will lessen when a large part of the population has acquired “somehow” immunity in against this virus. “But endemization is a process that we must help, warns the microbiologist. How? “Vaccinating the whole world”, he points out to Adnkronos Salute.
“We must not think that, as it becomes endemic, the virus does not continue to evolve and ‘churn out’ variants in poor countries that are not vaccinated”, warns the expert. “We must work to ensure that this endemization continues and is completed”, therefore “it is absolutely urgent – he specifies – to proceed as the World Health Organization said: do not waste doses of vaccine if the people to whom we give them perhaps do not risk anything, but concentrate efforts on poor countries where vaccination coverage is still very, very low “.
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