The green pass “should only be given to those who have completed the prophylaxis or to those who have recovered”. This is the opinion of Walter Ricciardi, advisor to the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza and full professor of general and applied hygiene at the Catholic University of Rome, expressed in an interview with Il Messaggero: “Without mass vaccination, think of living with virus is an illusion “, says Ricciardi, who maintains that” the low endemic will be obtained when we have 95 percent of the vaccinated “.
COVID, RICCIARDI: “THE PANDEMIC WILL END NOT BEFORE 2024”
“We must reduce the viral circulation and interrupt the chain of community contagion. There must be no cases at least for a certain period of time. But it is a continuous struggle, we cannot let our guard down”, says Ricciardi, who predicts that “spring 2022 may be an important milestone for rich countries. But it is clear that poor countries remain uncovered, and then at this rate the pandemic will end no earlier than 2024. While tens of billions of vaccine doses are being prepared, there is the risk of a variant that breaks them “.
COVID, THE HYPOTHESIS OF EXCLUDING NO VAX FROM THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE
Meanwhile, the idea of excluding no vaxes from the national health service is also gaining ground. ” It is now clear to most that the only resource we have available to defeat Covid is vaccination. Unfortunately, a fierce minority of the population risks jeopardizing the goal of herd immunity, which can only be achieved if 80% of citizens are immunized. I have already said that I am in favor, more than once, of the mandatory nature of the vaccine, but each obligation must be subject to a penalty for non-compliance. Which is the most appropriate for those who, with their behaviors, put everyone’s health at risk? An answer was given by the constitutionalist Alfonso Celotto: exclusion from the national health service, guaranteeing only urgent and essential care “. Thus Franco Dal Mas, senator of Forza Italia, member of the justice commission.” It is true, according to the Charter, health is an individual’s right, a right which, however, counts as the obligation, of the same constitutional rank, to fulfill the mandatory duties of political, economic and social solidarity, such as vaccination. And then the road can be said to be traced, where necessary, to avoid new deaths and closures, we have the tool, the vaccines, and also the penalty for those who do not use it, exclusion from the national health service. Politics now has the task of making courageous decisions ”, concludes Dal Mas.