Covid Italia, Galli: “Obligation to vaccinate or not get out”

The vaccination obligation is needed or “you don’t get out of it”. Professor Massimo Galli believes that the time has come for a drastic choice in the management of the covid emergency in Italy: infections are growing, hospitalizations are increasing. “I am afraid we have arrived at the moment of decisions and not of constant postponements. The decision not to provide for the vaccination obligation was a political one. It is a problem that concerns the whole of the West. definitive way with a decision “, says Galli to Agorà. “With the obligation, of course, you don’t convince those who don’t want to get vaccinated. And when you foresee the obligation, then you have to apply it. direction by optimizing the number of vaccinations to the maximum or I doubt we can continue. Countries where there is no vaccination will continue to manufacture variants, the times for a reduction in pathogenicity are long and not short. A decision is needed to get the countries to march and do not lock ourselves in the house “, he says. The Omicron variant rises to the fore, waiting for further data and elements to arrive to outline a picture: according to the first indications. it could be more contagious but could cause a milder form of the disease. “It is all seasoned with a series of conditionals. I am very happy to reassure, but I would like to do it on a more robust basis. According to logic it could go like this. We could have a great spread” of the virus “and for this we have to vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate. We have many recovered with excellent immunity, valid for avoiding a serious illness even in the face of very different variants “.” These are things that can be said more by analogy than by data actually arrived. Usually, a virus presents more mutations – and Omicron has many – and fewer is able to create fewer problems. Many mutations could lead the virus to have difficulty with reproductive efficacy. We can hope that Omicron is too mutated to be very dangerous indeed, “concludes Galli.