Green Pass, Italy like France? What experts say

Green Pass, does Italy have to follow the France model? After the breakthrough announced by President Emmanuel Macron, the debate in Italy – even among experts – on the opportunity to link access to a series of services and activities to the green pass. “Encouraging people to get vaccinated: this is the goal of French President Macron and we should pursue it too. Obviously, saying that if you want to go to the cinema, to the restaurant, to the stadium, you must have the Green pass is a way to avoid block the country more. So I’m sorry that someone in Italy has said against it. To do things in the best possible way and in freedom, even in October, we have to use the Green pass and I can’t find anything wrong with it “Matteo told Adnkronos Salute Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the San Martino Polyclinic Hospital in Genoa. “The Green pass to enter indoor bars and restaurants would not be bad”, says virologist Fabrizio Pregliasco, professor at the State University of Milan. Of course, Pregliasco has some doubts about the control entrusted to individuals: “It is difficult for the bartender or restaurateur you know to ask you to let you in – he observes – Easier in other situations such as weddings, where this is already the case. it must be modulated with respect to situations of greatest risk “. A gradual approach is essential: “The French Green pass must also be done by us, but it is not to be implemented instantly: we must give the possibility and time to complete the vaccinations to those who have not completed them. So not from tomorrow morning, but we must imagine that this can happen quickly just to make the Green pass realistic and useful, which is not just a declaration of intent, but what is it for? “, he says. “It is a good way – underlines the virologist – to arrive at a forced conviction against those who still hesitate to get vaccinated”. Category Walter Ricciardi: the French green pass is an example to follow in Italy. “It is an excellent initiative that all countries should follow”. In France, “the scientific evidence and the dangerousness of the Delta variant were noted, which led to the need to take these decisions, which are very wise and timely. Our situation, as a country, is comparable to that of France. And if France has followed us on the obligation of vaccination of health workers, now and we should take it as an example regarding the green pass “, said Ricciardi, underlining that it is” an important thing because it serves to avoid the increase of cases and consequences “. “The Green pass must be issued after the two doses of the anti Covid vaccine”, adds Riccardi, highlighting that the release already at the first injection “is an anomaly that must be corrected”. “The Green pass must be issued, as in all other European countries, after the completion of the vaccination cycle, or after the ascertainment of recovery from natural Covid or from the absolute certainty of negativity – Ricciardi argues – It is clear that, as regards vaccination, it must be completed in order to be certified . Partial vaccination is not enough “.” It is absolutely right that the Green pass becomes valid only after the conclusion of the anti-Covid vaccination cycle and therefore after two doses “, also highlights Massimo Clementi, director of the Microbiology and Virology Laboratory of the hospital. San Raffaele in Milan and lecturer at the Vita-Salute University. “Releasing it after the first gives a false security. And since these certifications are also used for travel, all the more reason they must certify that the vaccination process has been completed. It is important in relation to the Delta variant”, for which a reduced protection at the first dose and the even more urgent need for a full course of immunization, “but also for other problematic variants that are circulating around the world.” “We can discuss whether Macron’s measures are right (to me they are), but not if they are effective. In one day in France there were nearly 2 million bookings to get vaccinated “against Covid-19. “As you can see, even the most skeptical are convinced with the right arguments”, writes on Twitter the virologist Roberto Burioni, professor at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan. “If in order to defend, in the name of I don’t know what, the freedom not to vaccinate ignorant egoists in October we are forced to close everything with relative social, cultural and economic catastrophe, I will say goodbye and with my Green pass I will move to France”. “The standard bearers of freedom who say ‘they are in favor of the vaccine but against the obligation’ – attacks Burioni in another tweet – make the same reasoning as those who say ‘they are in favor of taxes but against the obligation to pay them'”.