Covid vaccine, Galli: “We need persuasion, not obligation”

For the anti-Covid vaccination “I continue to be in favor of a chain of persuasion and conviction. We need to remind people that we vaccinate for ourselves, even when it comes to adolescents, and we also vaccinate for others”. Massimo Galli, director of the Institute of Infectious Diseases of the Sacco hospital in Milan, State University, reiterates this to Adnkronos Health. “Putting the vaccination obligation now would be like putting the cart before the horse. And it could open a debate that risks taking a rather negative tone. I think working on persuasion is the most correct thing. The only situation for which I remain in favor of the obligation is that which concerns health workers in contact with patients “. Third dose? Before deciding whether a third dose of the anti-Covid vaccine will be needed, “it will be necessary to understand how long the immune response induced by the vaccine already made lasts and what the circulation of variants will be at the time of the decision. also to think about the updated vaccine, not just the repeated vaccine “. Immunity” I believe that the duration of vaccination protection “against Covid-19” goes well beyond the 6 months that have been proposed, and will allow us to start with a hoof hard protection which will make it more unlikely that the infection will resume in the autumn comparable to what we experienced last autumn “.