Crisanti: “Paid treatment for no vax? Suggestive but dangerous”

Paid treatment for Covid no vaxes? A “suggestive” but also “dangerous” hypothesis, explains Andrea Crisanti to Adnkronos Salute. Recently, in Germany, Thuringia has been pawing: with the hospitals again under stress due to Covid, the governor Bodo Ramelow said – as reported by the local press – that they will no longer be able to guarantee those who arrive at the hospital from not vaccinated who will still be treated there. Words related to the difficulty of the moment, but which bring to mind a long-standing debate: the National Health Service may decide not to pay for treatment for citizens who, while being able to avoid becoming seriously ill by adhering to correct lifestyles or practices such as vaccination , deliberately choose not to do any of this? “There is certainly a rational – admits the virologist to Adnkronos Salute – but somehow it clashes with a duty of solidarity”. “I understand that the unvaccinated impose a burden and a cost on society and that one would say: ‘Why do we have to pay for their choice?’. It is certainly a suggestive hypothesis – observes the expert – but in fact I think that in Italy it is not applicable, because people cannot be discriminated for by the type of disease they have or for their behavior. They are just sick “. The director of the Department of Molecular Medicine of the University of Padua explains that “it is difficult to pronounce on this thing. I understand that it has a rationality, its own justification, but the duty of solidarity for sick people would be lost and a passage would be opened” to other arguments that are along the lines of this, “that is, we do not treat the obese at the expense of the NHS because they have become obese by themselves, we do not do those others because they have smoked. This reasoning pushed to the extreme could even lead to the absurd to say that one who has crossed the street imprudently does not assist him “if he is run over. “It’s a dangerous speech,” he stresses. “The lockdown of the unvaccinated makes no sense. Instead we should focus on making the third dose of” Covid vaccine, “because every month we have 8-9 million people who become susceptible. to infection “. According to the virologist, in fact, insisting too much on measures aimed at non-vaccinated people is equivalent to wasting precious energy to produce few results. “There is not only the problem of the unvaccinated”, explains the director of the Department of Molecular Medicine at the University of Padua to Adnkronos Salute. The lockdown of the unvaccinated “makes no sense, also because the unvaccinated are very few compared to the total number of vaccinated”. And then, he adds, “for us to vaccinate the 6-7% of the people who are still missing requires a gigantic effort and anti-liberal measures. Let’s think about doing the third doses”.