Covid, Ricciardi: “More vaccinated and third doses or we will have a recovery between January and February”

“If we do not increase the number of vaccinated with the first dose and if we do not administer the third quickly we will have a strong recovery, more than what we see now. It will presumably take place between January and February. Certainly, however, mortality will be lower than that of the first. big waves thanks to vaccines, which in any case will protect a little “. This was stated in an interview with ‘Repubblica’ Walter Ricciardi, consultant to the Minister of Health. On the vaccine for children and how to convince parents who hesitate, Ricciardi suggests: “Explaining to them that vaccines are safe and protective and that the risk of contracting the infection and getting sick remains very high. On the other hand, the vast majority of vaccines is administered precisely in pediatric age “. As for the arrival of new drugs against Covid, Ricciardi warns:” The vaccine remains the fundamental tool, it avoids the disease. It is good that there are effective drugs, but they have a different purpose, that is the treatment. And by the way they are enormously more expensive. We could not afford them for millions of people and anyway using only those would mean more death and sickness. They are two tools to integrate. Even if we have antibiotics, we do not stop using them. the bacterial meningitis vaccine “.