Covid, Pregliasco: “Lockdown for unvaccinated possible and interesting option”

The lockdown only for non-vaccinated against Covid-19, in case of peaks in contagions and intensive care in suffering, “seems to me a possible and interesting option that lowers the level of risk in human contacts”. This is the opinion of the virologist Fabrizio Pregliasco, a professor at the University of Milan, on the so-called ‘Austria model’. “Since there is no management manual, it is necessary to refer to various examples and solutions – says the expert – and this is a possible solution because the risk of infection in contacts between unvaccinated or between vaccinated and unvaccinated is higher”. “Every human contact is at risk – recalls the virologist – but contact with unvaccinated subjects certainly increases the probability of increasing the spread of the infection”. Moreover, if such a measure were to be adopted, concludes Pregliasco, “it would also protect the unvaccinated, more vulnerable to a serious infection in the event of high viral circulation”.