The tour of the Health Festival 2021 continues. The event organized by the Content Hub Health of the Gedi group had its debut yesterday with the evening at Villa Medici in Rome and the participation of the great names in science, culture and information.
Back to the future – the program
The interview with the director of the Press Massimo Giannini to the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, offered new perspectives for the battle at Covid, touching on the issues of vaccines, green passes and the reopening of work and teaching activities.
Health Festival: at Villa Medici in Rome, interviews, debates and readings to discover the new normal after Covid
curated by Elena de Stabile
With the experts Vittorio Lingiardi, psychiatrist at Sapienza in Rome e Alberto Mantovani, scientific director of the Humanitas Foundation in Rome, the head of the Health hub Daniela Minerva he investigated the purely psychological sphere of the effects of the pandemic on our society, analyzing possible future scenarios also concerning the pathologies that have been partially neglected to cope with the coronavirus emergency.
Finally, with the doctor Maria Cristina Messa, Minister of University and Scientific Research, interviewed by the Deputy Director of the Republic Dario Cresto-Dina, we have entered the complicated world of researchers, underpaid and not sufficiently supported in our country, but so fundamental for the future of scientific battles against new possible threats.
The second day of the festival
Tonight, 10 September, the appointment is at the Carignano Theater at 6 pm, where the urban planner and architect Carlo Ratti, professor of the MIT of Boston together with the director of Repubblica Maurizio Molinari, will discuss the theme: “Living and living in post-Covid cities”.
This will be followed by the screening of the video interview by the press journalist Gabriele Beccaria, ad Anthony Fauci advisor to US President Biden and number one of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Covid, Fauci: “Concerned by skeptics and No Vax, the third dose is a good idea”
by Gabriele Beccaria
The interview, already published in recent days in the newspaper La Stampa and now online on the group’s websites, highlights the position of the US expert who hypothesized that the pandemic could be under control in the spring of 2022 and has sparked debates in the scientific community on the opportunity of the third dose and on the possibility that with the Delta variant, even among vaccinated people, the danger of being infected and contagious grew.
In the rich program of the Turin evening of the Festival, there will also be a multi-voiced debate on the future of research, current and future vaccines and other viruses that could appear on the world scene after Covid.
Moderated by Gabriele Beccaria himself, they will talk about it Massimo Galli director in charge of the infectious diseases department of the Sacco hospital in Milan, Pier Paolo Di Fiore of the European Institute of Oncology, Cristina Prandi of the University of Turin, Anna Sabino, director of the Candiolo Institute.
It will conclude the event, a comparison with Carolyn Christov Bagarkiev, director of the Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, who will talk about the therapeutic power of art and literature and the Italian writer Michela Murgia. To interview them on the stage of the Carignano Theater, the deputy director of the Press, Marco Zatterin.
.