Andrea Crisanti tough against Giorgio Palù, president of the Italian Medicines Agency (Aifa): “Manifestation of public health illiteracy. You cannot say something like that”
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Andrea Crisanti, well-known professor of microbiology at the University of Padua, guest of ‘The Breakfast Club’, broadcast on Radio Capital, spoke on the statements of Giorgio Palù, his colleague and president of the Italian Medicines Agency (Aifa). “The president of the Italian Medicines Agency (Aifa) Giorgio Palù says that Covid is no longer a pandemic but has it become endemic? He has discovered hot water, but what does it mean? It is clear that a new virus after three years and with the vaccine, its transmissibility changes, but this does not mean that it is no longer dangerous. Tuberculosis is also endemic, but in developing countries it is one of the most serious diseases there are”.
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Crisanti speaks of ‘misinformation’ referring to the words of Palù, who attacks harshly: “Palù says that Covid is less lethal than the flu? It is the first time I have argued against someone, this is a manifestation of public health illiteracy. Not something like this can be said, just look at what is happening in China without the vaccine. This is disinformation and I think also a bit of bad faith, “concludes the virologist. Crisanti also intervenes on investments for the Healthcare Fund, which he considers insufficient. “Two billion more for healthcare is nothing. Healthcare has undergone cuts of 8/9 billion a year since 2008. So it has a structural investment deficit which is crazy. Added to this is inflation. It means that healthcare is underfunded by 8% compared to the previous year”, he adds.
The comment on Mattarella and Schillaci
According to Crisanti, the first moves of Health Minister Schillaci are in line with the political orientation of the government “which works for the social elimination of the problem”. The virologist once again underlines the importance of the mask, which “protects very well both against Covid and against the flu. The flu virus has not circulated for two years, and this has made us all more vulnerable. Our immune system has not been stimulated. What is happening in Italy was seen in Australia, 4 or 5 months ago, where there was a particularly violent flu epidemic. The lowering of attention on vaccination has influenced the spread of flu, because you can get vaccinated against the flu”. Finally, recalling the importance of these in indoor places and in public, Crisanti also seems to beat President Mattarella, who tested positive for Covid-19 after the inauguration of the theater season of the Teatro La Scala in Milan: “Mattarella without a mask at the Scala “Exposed people must set a good example. The elderly are more vulnerable even if vaccinated, so I believe that an elderly politician must use a mask in a public place. But this has nothing to do with Mattarella or others. I in the Senate I do not use the mask because I am not a person at risk and I am vaccinated “, he concluded.