In Italy AstraZeneca has withdrawn some batches of its vaccine. Vaccination has been suspended in Denmark. Fatality, fate, predisposition or irrelevant casuistry, the fact is that there have been some deaths. Deaths that make us discuss and reflect because, beyond the numbers, too many or very few, the news, the one that then ends up in the dock with the accusation of alarmism, must report in any case. First of all in order not to fail in its task, to inform. Even at the cost of unleashing bitter controversy. The answer is Carlo Federico Perno, director of Microbiology and Virology at the Bambin Gesù in Rome. Which premieres: “An investigation has been launched to find out if there is a causal correlation between the administration of the vaccine and deaths”.
Exactly, the population wants to know what is happening.
“So you have to wait. I’ll explain with an example the difference between causal and temporal correlation. If it rains today and I slip into the house, it doesn’t mean that I fell due to rain, but if I hit the ground on the wet sidewalk there could be a correlation, in this case causal “.
Meanwhile, the AstraZeneca vaccination suffered an unexpected halt.
“Of course, it is the correct procedure, according to which the authorities have blocked the administration in the name of the precautionary principle. But we are talking about a vaccine for which a fact must be emphasized. It is fundamental and must always be remembered to citizens ”.
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What does it refer to?
“To an incontrovertible reality that should reassure: the first AstraZeneca dose, in the world, has already been administered to millions of people and none of those dramatic events we are witnessing have been reported. So it is reasonable to think, but it must be an investigation to make it clear, that adverse reactions and recorded deaths are not related to the vaccine itself but to individual batches. Provided that the causal correlation I mentioned is demonstrated for the latter “.
Yet something went wrong.
“It’s obvious. A vaccine, by definition, must first of all be safe, precisely because it is inoculated to healthy people and not, like chemo, to seriously ill patients. And if a modest and typical vaccine toxicity is tolerated, no serious toxicity could be hypothesized in any case ”.
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Therefore do you consider it essential to investigate?
“It will be across the board. With the usual vaccines, the ones we know, one is exposed to only modest side effects. Transient and, therefore, not significant. Often amplified, wrongly, by the media ”.
Wasn’t it that the trials were conducted so quickly that safety was overshadowed?
“Further clarification is needed on this point. In times of normality, vaccination trials require considerable time to reach mass use because efficacy and side effects must be carefully verified. It is clear now that Covid has moved much faster, precisely because it is in an emergency. And it is equally evident that in the emergency procedures some steps require further evaluations which, in this case, were made during the vaccination campaign and not before. But it should be noted that the registration studies had not shown any significant harmful effects, so it may, I repeat, have missed something later, during the preparation of the emergency doses. And this is what must be verified, because quality control is always essential, in any situation. Once again, the authorities will give an exhaustive answer to this important question ”.
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What role does collective psychosis play in the dissuasive phenomenon?
“Much. Three factors come into play here: the Covid situation which is challenging in itself, the media pressure that controls everything in real time and often lacking sufficient elements of evaluation, and then the suspicion of the ineffectiveness of vaccines against variants ” .
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And you, have no doubts about mutations?
“For now, we have no evidence that current vaccines are also not effective against variants. Indeed, I would sound the alarm: we move quickly with vaccines, otherwise in the world there will be hundreds of thousands more deaths, for now we are almost two million victims. In Great Britain and Israel, where massive vaccination is running at a fast pace, the number of hospitalizations has collapsed ”.
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