AstraZeneca to young people, Crisanti: “Let’s use another vaccine if there is one”

AstraZeneca “is a safe and effective vaccine. In some cases, however, there is a very rare association with a complication”, the rare thrombosis. Regarding the age range of the use of this vaccine “indications have been given, but there is a problem of consistency with respect to these indications. If there is an alternative” to AstraZeneca in young people, “this alternative should be used”. This was stated by virologist Andrea Crisanti, guest at ‘L’aria che tira’ on La7, commenting on the growing doubts about the administration of the AstraZeneca vaccine to 18-20 year-olds during the Open Days in the various regions. Read also Remembering that “there is a process that occurs naturally for every vaccine, which is authorized with certain indications. As data accumulates, the perimeter of the indications changes. This is happening with AstraZeneca – underlines the director of the Department of molecular medicine of the University of Padua – There is a need for clarity, which can come from data and transparency, from sharing data with the scientific community “.” On vaccines, you need to have simple, transparent and non-contradictory communication. always said that vaccines are safe and effective, from the beginning it had to be said that the indications would change with the arrival of new information. The problem was the wrong information at the beginning, a mistake was made. I said that data was needed and it was necessary to be transparent: now we are paying the consequences of this damn communication … “, he concludes.