“Doctors talk about medicine, no more field invasions”

“Does the vaccine select the variants? The claim that variants arise primarily as a reaction to the vaccine is one of the most inaccurate things I’ve heard since the pandemic.” These are the words of the infectious disease specialist and researcher Matteo Bassetti who chose Instagram to express his opinion on the vaccine and variants issue. “The variants – he added – they are born when people are not vaccinated and the virus moves freely: see the Delta in India where the population was not immunized as well as the Mu in South America. To say that vaccinating the population favors the onset of variants is like saying that Tachipirina causes fever or that the police favor the underworld. No more field invasions! Doctors talk about medicine. Everyone does their job and talk about what they know and know.”.