Covid, Pregliasco: “Yes smart working, no unvaccinated lockdowns”

Yes to smart working for the state, no to the lockdown for the unvaccinated. This is the position expressed by Fabrizio Pregliasco, professor at the University of Milan, regarding operationally effective measures to contain the new curve of infections from Covid 19. “A return to smart working in the Public Administration would not be bad until spring”, says the virologist at Adnkronos Salute. The return to work from home of a large mass of people, according to the virologist, could be “among the things to do and think about in this phase of concern. Now – underlines the expert – we need to think broadly to see the solutions acceptable “that reduce contacts and opportunities for contagion. “Putting restrictions only for the unvaccinated” against Covid-19, which now represents less than 10% of the vaccinable population, “is not decisive. And here it is hard because to obtain good results we know what we should do: generalized restrictive measures . Everything else is mediation, “he adds. “You can give the vaccinated more freedom – reflects the expert – but then the people themselves should be the ones to sip the contacts”. So is it wrong, as Crisanti says, to insist on the “witch hunt for the unvaccinated”? “In my opinion, vaccination is the easiest part – replies Pregliasco – because the other measures are not very easy, they are linked to restrictions and operational complications such as extending the Green Pass obligation to regional trains and subways”. Obviously – the doctor explains – the more vaccinated the better, that’s for sure “. But “even if we managed to vaccinate everyone – he warns – the problem would not be solved” because “there are variants. Now we have the Delta plus which is starting to give some problems”. “If we want to achieve a sort of herd immunity” against Covid-19, “even if we know that we cannot get there, the data indicate the need to reach 88% of vaccinated”. A still distant percentage. “We are a bit below because – highlights the virologist – we have 10% of children who cannot be vaccinated today and another 10% of the vaccinable population that has not yet been vaccinated. So this value takes us away from the objective of this model. mathematical”.