Covid, Minelli: “Yes to measures only for no vax, protect vaccinated”

“The choice of stringent measures only for the unvaccinated” against Covid-19 “was actually taken and implemented several months ago, as I also publicly hoped for last June. And not as a mere provocation, but as an instrument of protection of those who, being among other things a very large majority of people, have the right to move and to finally live, returning to the stadium or to the cinema or to the clubs, certain that those sitting next to them are protected to the same extent “. This was declared to Adnkronos Salute by the immunologist Mauro Minelli, head of the Foundation for Personalized Medicine for Southern Italy. “Everyone is free to civilly express their ideas, but the screamed right of not wanting to get the vaccine cannot and must not jeopardize the health of the vast majority of others. So now we must protect those who are vaccinated with stringent measures for the no vax, “he adds. “The reading of the phenomenon – he underlines – becomes even more compelling when it is carried out by a doctor, committed every day to carrying out his profession in contact with many and different people and who, precisely for this reason, must think about the concept of large numbers – continues l ‘expert – Concept that can escape the common person, that is, those accustomed to reasoning instead on the numbers relating to the family group or, if anything, to the slightly larger group of direct or perhaps virtual acquaintances. Healthcare, especially the public one, cannot be based on small numbers “. “And it is clear that, if I put the risk of a disease on one of the two scales and the theoretical risk of a vaccine on the other, if the scales definitely tip in favor of vaccination, I doctor will still have to follow that lead. , because the law of large numbers will require me to run some very rare risks connected to the vaccination of a very large number of people, but to save an enormously higher number “, says Minelli. According to the immunologist, “if it had never been like this, for example, the result of continental Europe free from polio or smallpox could have been achieved”. In conclusion, “I always remain of the idea that we doctors would do well to continue to explain unambiguously, serenely and with clear and non-authoritarian competence that for the doctor there is no concept of ‘let’s see how it goes and then we regulate ourselves’, but the necessity – he remarks – through a constant, competent and detailed update because based on the evidences codified by science and numbers, to make a scorched earth around a sneaky enemy, with weapons now more and more precise and safe “.