Lopalco: “No to vaccinated swab, wrong message”

Buffer also for vaccinated to counter the Omicron variant? “Of all the possible measures, honestly, the one I would exclude is the idea of ​​forcing people who have had two or three doses of vaccine to take a tampon because this would also be a ‘pedagogical’ message towards the citizens we have said so far ‘ get vaccinated because vaccination can allow us wide degrees of freedom. “Saying now ‘despite the vaccination you have to take a swab before going to the cinema’, defeats a principle so far strongly supported”. This was stated by epidemiologist Pier Luigi Lopalco, professor of hygiene at the University of Salento, speaking to the microphones of ‘Che Giorno è’ on Rai Radio 1 on any new measures being studied to stem the fourth wave and the diffusion of the variant Omicron. “We have to deal with this new variant, I would say that – said Lopalco – it is also useless to wait for the data because we must take for granted that in January the Omicron variant will be, if not exclusive, in any case largely dominant on our territory as it already is. occurred in the rest of Europe “.