“When the UK decided to extend the time interval between the first and second dose of mRNA vaccines, I expressed my concern, explaining that generating partial immunity in the population during a pandemic promotes the circulation of antibody resistant variants. This is what is happening with the Delta variant “: the immunologist of the University of Padua Antonella Viola writes it on his Fb profile. “The virus is not only more transmissible but also less sensitive to antibodies. For this reason, as now indicated on the ECDC website, those who have received only one dose, can not only become infected but also get sick. in a hurry: better to cover people over 50 years than to vaccinate children. This too should have been obvious right away. Errors aside, for citizens the message is: everyone must be vaccinated because no one will enjoy the immunity of flock (which, as I have said for months, will not be reached); you have to do the recall without postponing until after the holidays; until you are fully vaccinated (10 days from the second dose), you must continue to use masks and spacing. full course of vaccination we can feel safe, “he concludes.
“It is important that we leave for the holidays with the second dose of vaccine performed. We must convince us not to postpone the vaccine to go on vacation”. Thus Francesco Vaia, director of Spallanzani in Rome. “At the same time we must go out to meet people to facilitate vaccinations – adds Vaia -. In Lazio we will do it with centers in tourist resorts, but first we must make people aware of the importance of completing the vaccination cycle”. For Vaia, “it is not the time to worry, but it is even more time to act, we must always vaccinate large areas of the population and make ourselves safe. Then isolate, sequence the variants, study them and adapt our tools: vaccines and monoclonal antibodies. “For discos there must be the same rules that apply to stadiums and other meeting places. I am thinking of spaces with maxi screens. First of all they must be outdoors. So the green pass, the vaccine or a negative buffer in the last 24 hours “, said the director Vaia.” We need these rules to move forward – underlines Vaia – and enjoy the spaces. We avoid cunning in order not to risk going back “.
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