While the councilor for health of the Lazio Region, Alessio D’Amato, proposes that all no vax ending up in hospital or intensive care, Professor Pier Luigi Lopalco, councilor of health in Puglia and epidemiologist, relaunches by suggesting that those who make no vax propaganda be removed from the order of doctors. “The issue of opposition to vaccination must be brought back into a clearer context. Let’s ask ourselves how serious it is. How many people are? And above all, what are the causes of this attitude of theirs?“asks Lopalco sul Messenger explaining that, in a moment like this, it would rather be useful “to hit hard whoever makes active propaganda against the vaccines“.” It is a large group to which doctors and health professionals have also signed up – he explains – especially with them we must not have any qualms, a doctor must be disbarred on the spot. It is unthinkable that absurd home therapies circulate on the web, they are solemn nonsense“.
The No Vax problem
In the interview with Messenger, Lopalco proposes a “counter-propaganda in every hospital, in the studies medici, in clinics“to make people understand that getting vaccinated is essential. And to do this, according to the epidemiologist, it is necessary”engage general practitioners and pediatricians of free choice“because, thanks to the relationship of trust that has been established between them and the patient, only these can be able to explain doubts to those who have them. According to D’Amato, the only solution is to have the expenses paid out of their own pockets of hospitalization for no vax who end up hospitalized. The Lazio Region Health Councilor is pursuing his battle on the basis of two principles: the first is that those who refuse to get vaccinated harm the freedom of others; the second is of an economic nature, that is, the daily expenditure for an inpatient in intensive care is about 1,500 euros and since the days of hospitalization are unlikely to be less than 17, each patient costs the Region about 25 thousand euros.
Hard punch with doctors
Lopalco is not at all convinced that the solution carried out by the Puglia Region, which is very determined to go all the way on D’Amato’s proposal and, right now is wondering how to make it concrete, could be the right solution to solve the problem of No Vax. “I make a provocation: should we also extend the reasoning to those who fall with the scooter and do not wear a helmet? And who ends up in hospital after an accident without wearing a seat belt? We are talking about citizens who do not understand the value of prevention and therefore harm themselves, the community and the state coffers. But I believe that before politics we must talk about bioethics and the Constitution“. That of the Zingaretti council for these reasons is a proposal that”must be evaluated with great attention“. According to Lopalco, if this were approved, more than benefits would bring further clashes e social tensions. Hence the idea, rather, of intervening on “who makes active propaganda against vaccines“ and, in particular on doctors and health care professionals. “Especially with them we must not have any qualms – it is his position – a doctor must be disbarred on the spot”.