AstraZeneca and second dose, the doctors: “We decide upon recall”

The second dose of the anti Covid vaccine after having carried out the first with AstraZeneca was the hot topic at the center of the debate among experts. “This time I disagree with Garattini, whom I respect as a pharmacologist, but in this way we add confusion to confusion”, Filippo Anelli, president of the National Federation of Medical Orders (Fnomceo), told Adnkronos Salute, commenting on what was proposed by the pharmacologist Silvio Garattini , founder and president of IRCCS Mario Negri, who suggested for the recall to be “pragmatic and leave the choice of dose to citizens, precisely to increase vaccination coverage”. Read also “Vaccines are not toys – rings rings – as drugs have side effects as we have learned and require a medical prescription, therefore a responsibility for the decision taken which the doctor responds to in civil and mental matters. The citizen can accept or minus the doctor’s decision, but the reasoning about which vaccine to take for the booster rests with the doctor. ” “I firmly believe, and on this support Garattini’s reflection – continues Anelli – that health decisions must be approved by the citizen. The doctor must be clear and explain in a simple way. But the proposal, I repeat, must come from The thing that the pandemic experience has taught us – remember – is that vaccines can have rare adverse effects, doctors know how to manage this thing and they do it in Italy every minute, assuming all the responsibilities. Give citizens the choice. or upset skills that by law do not belong to other professionals would be a mistake. I would be very worried, for example, about what could happen with vaccinations in pharmacies, if we were to abdicate this principle “. As for the masks, “I believe that by the end of the month we can think about stopping the obligation to wear a mask outdoors. I am optimistic, especially in those Regions in the white zone where cases are very few” hopes the president of the National Federation of Orders of doctors (Fnomceo). “There is an evident epidemiological improvement – he underlines – and we are in a phase in which we have a reduction in the mortality of new cases”.