Covid vaccine, Palù: “Mandatory for PA and law enforcement”

“To decide on the mandatory vaccine, the biological, clinical and epidemiological impact of the virus should be evaluated. The categories most affected by the infection, for example, are 5-11 year olds and 40-50 year olds. It would be desirable that at least the employees of the public administration and the police were obliged to get vaccinated by being in close contact with the population “. Giorgio Palù, emeritus professor of Virology at the University of Padua, president of AIFA and member of the CTS tells the press, according to which the obligation for everyone “remains the extreme solution to be evaluated based on the progress of the pandemic. Certainly not we are still in the Austrian situation. “” The green certificate – continues Palù – was a great success in terms of both health and economic policy and could be strengthened for some activities, given the technical limitations of both antigenic and molecular tampons. studies on the population show, it begins to decrease already around six months, especially in the elderly and in subjects with concomitant diseases. It is therefore reasonable to propose to lower the duration of the certificate to nine months. The increase in protection given by the ‘booster’ is excellent against all variants, but the duration will be decided on the basis of scientific data. “Regarding the extension to all of the third dose, the virologist emphasizes that” the Fda am ericana has authorized it from the age of 18 and we too will soon evaluate the opportunity. Children are certainly more exposed to the Delta variant. By the end of November, the EMA should publish its risk-benefit assessment and Aifa will then express its opinion “. As for the protesters of the green pass and vaccines and the space they have on TV, “communication during the pandemic was so nagging as to generate a real infodemic that disconcerted society. It is essential to give correct information to the public by providing the knowledge bases for interpreting the pandemic phenomenon: therefore, that political leaders, health and scientific institutions speak up ”. On the growth of the contagion, Palù does not show alarmist, claiming that he expected “a winter resurgence, but thanks to vaccines it is not exponential. Italy cannot complain. All of Europe is worse off, because it is less vaccinated. The factors of the new infections are four: the winter climate that facilitates the airborne spread of the virus, the more contagious Delta variant, the unvaccinated and the drop in immunity. How much will the infection continue to grow? These are predictions from biostatisticians, which depend on variables that are often not very controllable. We should have the humility to say that this is an unpredictable evolution. The only security is the protection given by vaccines, to be strengthened with the third dose “. As for the possibility that the virus has leaked from a Wuhan laboratory, Palù says that “the hypotheses always remain two. The first is that the virus passed from bat to man, possibly via an intermediate host, and the second that it came out of a laboratory by mistake. The virus has the oddity of an insertion of twelve nucleotides into a site of the S gene that is not subject to recombination. This originally made the virus particularly infectious. Therefore, manipulation cannot be ruled out. It has already happened in the past that a virus has left the laboratory. It can happen if the safety measures necessary for the containment of highly pathogenic agents are not respected. What is certain is that the Chinese have not contributed to shedding light on the issue ”.