Omicron variant, Sileri: “If current vaccines protect raising immunized targets”

“It’s hard to say now about how troubling the Omicron variant is. Let’s learn from the past and wait for the science.” Thus the Undersecretary of Health, Pierpaolo Sileri, spoke this morning to the microphones of ‘The train of eight’ on Kiss Kiss Italia radio. “We will have to wait a few days – explains Sileri – to get the results of the laboratory studies carried out in the various countries where the variant was detected. The problems relating to the new variant are essentially two: understanding how much more contagious it is than the one in this one. currently circulates in Europe, namely Delta Plus, and whether or not it can evade vaccines and where it eludes them, whether completely or partially. This second factor – highlights the undersecretary – is the most important one because if we can protect ourselves from this variant thanks to the vaccines we now have available, then the fact that it may be more widespread – he concludes – will be contained by raising the target of the percentage of the population to be vaccinated to achieve community protection “. “We continue with the vaccination – concludes Sileri – with the first dose, for those who have not yet had the vaccine and with the boosters, according to the established times. From this fourth wave we come out with vaccination, let’s get vaccinated for ourselves “.