Green pass, Ricciardi: “Inadequate swabs, false negatives infect”

The method of issuing the compulsory Green pass covid should be revised and “stiffened”, while the swab to get the green certificate “is an inappropriate measure for this epidemic phase” and “true Achilles’ heel” with false negatives that “infect” . Thus Walter Ricciardi, consultant to the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, guest of ‘The Breakfast Club’ on Radio Capital. “Today – he explained – the method of issuing the Green pass must be reviewed, we issue it as it also happens in Europe, to the recovered, the vaccinated and the buffered. But the antigenic pad is the real Achilles’ heel at this moment, in the best of cases it does not certify the positivity of at least 30% of the subjects. So there are false negatives who think they are safe but enter environments and infect, even some vaccinated. So, it’s my idea but shared by other experts, we should to tighten up the method of issuing the certificate. The buffer for obtaining the Green pass is an inadequate measure for this epidemic phase “. For Ricciardi, “the cases will grow, the Delta variant has changed the game and is very much, much more contagious than that of Wuhan and the English one. A positive person infects 6-7”, he explains, while on the choice of Austria to aim for a lockdown for the unvaccinated “honestly we don’t need it” and “it was a dramatic choice by Austria and it is clear that they ran for cover after the oxen had fled. Our government made timely decisions”. Compared to last year “we have one more weapon which is the vaccine, last year we did not have the possibility to protect ourselves and this year we do. If we increase vaccination coverage and if we exercise caution, even when vaccinated, it could be a Quiet Christmas spent even with close family and friends if we behave well “, adds Ricciardi on the forecasts for Christmas.