Covid, Bassetti: “The booster dose before autumn, hopefully with an updated vaccine”

“It is very likely that we will do a booster” of Covid vaccine “next fall, between September and November, in order to be ready to face the cold season, in which the virus affects the most. And we hope that this is the case. booster is different, ie with an updated vaccine, able to better cover all variants “. He supports it Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the San Martino Polyclinic in Genoa, stressing that “reasonably we should stop calling it the fourth dose but call it a booster dose”. The infectious disease specialist, in this regard, also recalls the considerations of the EMA, based on studies made in Israel, “which say that the fourth dose taken very close to the third in the general population does not have that effect that was thought to have” .

The infectious also gives a very high evaluation on the management of the pandemic by the president of the Council Mario Draghi, while it attributes the sufficiency to the former president Conte. “I believe that the pandemic in Italy has been managed well overall”, he says and wanting to draw up a report card “I would certainly give the Draghi government a good 9 because, in my opinion, things have been done very well. To the Conte government, on the other hand, with all the extenuating circumstances given by the fact that very little was known about the pandemic, I would give a pass, because overall things were not done badly, while on the school I would feel not to go beyond 5 because we were a bit too close , and our boys still pay the consequences “.

The school

“The Conte government – said the Genoese infectious disease specialist – had the misfortune to be the first to arrive on an epidemic of which little was known and therefore we sailed very closely. In the first phase, correct decisions were made, perhaps less acceptable and the closure of schools for so long, on the other hand, is less correct than in other countries, which has damaged our children a lot, who still bear the consequences today. This vision by the Conte government therefore – he continues – was too much caution at least as regards schools, closures and reopening “.