Covid, Crisanti: “Free everyone facilitates new variants more resistant to vaccines”

The cases of Covid “will rise at this rate for another month and then everything will depend on how long the barrier of the vaccinated with two doses and of the recovered will hold.” This is the forecast at ‘La Stampa’ by Andrea Crisanti, which analyzes the trend of contagions, close to doubling from week to week due to the Delta variant. According to the professor of Microbiology at the University of Padua, the celebrations on Sunday evening helped the virus, “but especially in England where the infection exceeds 30 thousand cases per day. A situation that risks facilitating new variants that are more resistant to vaccines. In Italy for now the contagion remains under a thousand cases per day and it is difficult to remain infected. Of course, gatherings always help the virus “. Crisanti comments on the embrace between Mancini and Vialli, now allowed to all Italians, and says: “I don’t want to make a controversy, but people do what they are allowed to. It is those who make the decisions and those who carry out the checks who must be cautious. In recent days, hospitalizations have increased slightly, but even looking at the English experience, this inverse relationship can be confirmed. However, we cannot pretend that the Delta variant is not a risk for a country like Italy that has protected less than half the population with two doses. If the Israeli data on the lower efficacy of vaccines are correct we will not arrive at herd immunity. This means everyone having to vaccinate and prepare a third updated dose that the scientific community should start discussing. It is true that the technology is giving the best results, but there is a possibility that it is not suitable for further administration due to some inflammatory side effects. Israel is carrying out a field test and we will see the data ”. As for the fact that AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson have stopped deliveries because they only use Pfizer and Moderna, the microbiologist says that “in the beginning having more vaccines was useful, but now it is a complication. Better to do tests to understand which is best. for the third dose and go on with one. Even the Green pass has been overwhelmed by the Delta variant and every country is running for cover: the symptom of a non-existent European health policy and on which we should reflect. Beyond the certificate it would be important not to be able to travel without two doses or a recent molecular swab and in any case five days of quarantine. And apart from the latter, I would like the same guarantees at the restaurant and I would like at the disco “.