Milan, March 22 (beraking latest news Salute) – “I think all the possible evil of the fact that there are difficulties on anti-Covid vaccination for over 80s and that there are still many people of this age who are not vaccinated” in different regions of Italy. “It is foolish that we do not proceed quickly by giving priority to the categories most at risk. Where it has been done massively, in countries like Great Britain or Israel, there has been a dramatic reduction in infections and deaths. Everyone should be vaccinated, for heaven’s sake, the message is this and it is a necessary premise. But it seems absurd to me that young people get ahead of the elderly. I understand that the vaccines used are different and that there are pressures from certain categories, but the over 70, together with those over 80, should be protected first. Other countries have followed this criterion “. This is the reflection of Pier Mannuccio Mannucci, former scientific director of the Milan Polyclinic, a big player in hematology still operating with his research activity.
The white coat, 81, was vaccinated “in February, as a doctor, with Pfizer.” After, he tells beraking latest news Salute, “you feel lighter. Here, I would describe the sensation you feel like this. It is a psychological fact, you are less worried. Although, even after the vaccine, you still have to continue using all of them. the “anti-contagion” precautions and cautions. “I continue to observe them with extreme attention. Also because my wife, who is younger than me and 60 years old, is not yet vaccinated and is waiting her turn.”
“We doctors – reasoned the internist – are living proof in Italy of the spectacular result of vaccination. We have seen how the number of infections has practically disappeared, passing from several hundreds to a few dozen”.
And, adds Mannucci, “there is no reason not to think that this will happen even in non-doctors. But we must hurry to vaccinate the elderly and give them top priority”, he observes in these days of controversy for the setbacks recorded in some Regions, such as Lombardy itself, which have ended up slowing down shield injections precisely in this most at risk range. “The case of the journalist Scanzi also caused an uproar. From what I understand, he proposed himself for the list of ‘reservists'”, to be called last minute in case of advanced doses of the day, “as a caregiver of frail elderly people. But it doesn’t seem like a very nice thing that happens to have been called him – observes the doctor – and instead his fragile parents had not yet been vaccinated. It is true that the call was for AstraZeneca and the elderly are given another vaccine, but the same did not seem nice that there was such a contrast “.