“The” anti Covid vaccines in Italy “are in the refrigerators: we offer the booster dose to all those who have completed the vaccination cycle for more than 6 months”. The epidemiologist on the anti-coronavirus ‘booster’ Pier Luigi Lopalco, councilor for health in Puglia, invites us to send a “clear and understandable message for anyone. Without failing the principle of priority – he specifies – which would be respected because the order used in the administration of the first and second doses would still be followed”.
In a post on Facebook, which he called ‘Recall for all’, the scientist writes: “I don’t know if it’s not clear to everyone yet”, but “to get out of the pandemic emergency it is necessary to vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate. To prevent the circulation of the virus from gaining strength, it is necessary for an increasing share of the population to have a sufficient level of immunity to avoid the status of carrier and, therefore, of virus diffuser. To obtain this result, you can choose the English way: whoever wants to vaccinate and restrictive measures as long as the health system holds up. of human lives. The alternative “to the English road” is to accelerate immunization through vaccination “.
For Lopalco, “the strategy to follow then is quite simple”. First: “Convince those who have not yet done so to get vaccinated. I believe that the compulsory Green pass, even for breathing, is the most effective way and with the most acceptable costs“. Second:” Offer the booster dose to those who, despite being protected from serious illness thanks to two doses of the vaccine, begin to present a weakening of immunity that makes them potentially susceptible to infection and, consequently, contagious. To date – recalls the epidemiologist – the booster dose is offered according to a priority criterion that follows the trend of the early stages of the vaccination campaign: first the very fragile, then health workers and fragile, then the over 60, and so on. This approach, even if correct on the merits, still represents an unnecessary organizational complication “, observes the scientist-councilor who proposes precisely to offer the booster dose to anyone who has completed the vaccination cycle for more than 6 months.
A “a reminder must therefore be made to all Italians – glosses Lopalco -. For those who have not yet been vaccinated, a call to common sense and conscience. To all the others, the vast beautiful silent majority, a vaccine booster to defend themselves even better and longer “.
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