Stop the state of emergency in Italy after March 31, there will therefore be no extension. But what do the experts think. From Andreoni to Bassetti passing through Galli to Vaia: here is their opinion.
Bassetti
“I had no doubts about Draghi, he proves to be the right person in the right place. Listen and this is important. The premier has good collaborators and good ministers, but then he decides and listened to what many of us have said. They are measures that they bring us back to normality, it’s the moment of the carrot after the stick, without ‘slouching’ though. You have decided well, good Draghi “. So at Adnkronos Salute Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the San Martino Polyclinic in Genoa, comments on the announcements of Prime Minister Mario Draghi on the end of the state of emergency on March 31 and on other measures that will be taken.
Gauls
“I am absolutely of the opinion that everything that can be opened in the country should be reopened. But if this also includes the elimination of the Green pass, albeit gradual, I do not agree at all and I do not know when I will be able to do so. I am convinced that is not a correct message to give at this time and can only be useful in holding together a shaky majority “of government.” So at Adnkronos Salute Massimo Galli, former director of Infectious Diseases at the Sacco hospital in Milan.
For Galli “there is no contradiction between the maintenance of the Green pass and the openings. The maintenance of the Green pass is a guarantee. I do not know in detail the words of the premier but frankly messages of suspension of the green I am not clear what it means) I am almost a solicitation to make sure that the many who have to take the third dose do not do it and that we do not vaccinate the unvaccinated among the little ones. And this is not good, “he says. Gauls
The elimination of color areas? “Frankly, they have no relevance in this situation. We must reopen the country, but with the Green pass and continue to vaccinate,” she concludes.
Go to
“We find in the words of President Draghi what we have always affirmed: it is time to consider measures for the population (the Green pass in primis) tools and not ideologisms. Temporary tools that have had and make sense at specific times. “innovation, progress, vaccines and therapies mark this time. We don’t have to go back. Very well President Draghi, Italy is moving forward and never going back”. Thus the director of the Inmi Spallanzani of Rome, Francesco Vaia.
“Now we need a push, also from Parliament, to adopt, by decree of the Prime Minister, the guidelines for ventilation systems in schools. Let’s go in the desired direction”, concludes Vaia, recalling the importance of mechanical ventilation in allowing maximum safety in the classrooms.
Andreoni
“Prime Minister Draghi’s is a precise choice with understandable reasons but, from an epidemiological point of view, we must be cautious”. So at Adnkronos Salute Massimo Andreoni, head of infectious disease at the Tor Vergata Polyclinic in Rome and scientific director of the Italian Society of Infectious and Tropical Diseases (Simit). “The situation must be kept under control because the cases are still high and we have one of the highest death tolls in Europe,” he added.
“All the choices, it seems to me, go in the direction of considering the epidemic under control even if the Covid numbers are high – continued Andreoni – The end of the state of emergency, the stop of outdoor masks in other places, the end colored areas indicate that the spread of the virus is considered endemic and no longer pandemic “. “All this is understandable from a political and economic point of view, but – he remarked – we must be cautious and still be careful”.
Satin
When will Italy also be able to experience its ‘Freedom Day’, the date of liberation from all anti-Covid restrictions? “The ‘when’ this day will come is less important than the ‘what’ will trigger it”, warns Guido Rasi, consultant to the coronavirus emergency commissioner, General Francesco Paolo Figliuolo, who invites to monitor “precise parameters”. Basically two: “The circulation of the virus, because let’s not forget that Omicron has made 7 and a half million infected and it may still be infected – explains the expert to Adnkronos Health – and the occupation of hospital beds. Why not it is tolerable to have not even one more removed from the assistance of patients with other pathologies “.
After Prime Minister Mario Draghi announced that the state of emergency will not be further extended on March 31, what will happen from April 1 “should be decided on March 29, primarily based on how the hospitals have emptied. Our problem at the moment. is to treat people who have other diseases “other than Covid-19, underlines the former executive director of the European drug agency Ema. “So, if the hospitals are reasonably cleared and can finally do the rest, we can think about loosening the Green pass tool.” It is necessary “to observe the evolution of the hospital parameter and of viral circulation – reaffirms Rasi – and promptly expand freedoms as soon as the possibility of doing so opens up”.
“Today – highlights the microbiologist – the Green pass is mainly aimed at encouraging vaccination as much as possible. And as long as in hospitals there is 70% of the beds occupied by people who could avoid hospitalization, it remains difficult to accept to remove the the only incentive to make the vaccine “. The same reasoning applies to the possible maintenance of the Covid-19 vaccine obligation for over 50s even after June 15: “Here too, let’s see how the pandemic is going, of the objective parameters we have said”, urges Rasi . (continues)
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