“It is a mistake to wait for the updated vaccine. Today, vaccines, although created on the original virus, work very well against the severe form of the disease, even against the Omicron variant and its sub-variants. To that we must strive: to avoid therapy intensive and hospital “. Thus the Undersecretary of Health Pierpaolo Sileri to the microphones of Radio Capital on the 4 / a dose. For next autumn “there is no restrictive measure”, added Sileri who also expressed himself against the use of masks at school: “I think that under a certain age it is not necessary,” he said.
The mask “is probably used for a more late adolescent population”, said Sileri, who remarked that today even the most fragile population is in a condition of greater safety than in the past: “Today our elderly are vaccinated and have reminder: circulation in the younger population shouldn’t do much harm, “he said. According to the undersecretary, moreover, “there will be fluctuations in the circulation of the virus. But it is a situation that cannot be superimposed on that of the last two and a half years” in terms of hospitalizations. In the long run, coexistence with Covid “will mean that we will behave with this group of viruses and all the variants exactly as we do with other viruses that damage the flu. It will enter the list of viruses against which we should be vaccinated every year”, Sileri concluded.
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