“Vaccine campaign? Show pictures of those who are not breathing”

“I would show people who think not to get vaccinated to benefit from herd immunity pictures of people who got Covid when they were in intensive care, who couldn’t breathe with a helmet on. And after that I’d tell them ‘go to vaccinate which is better ‘”. This is the shock campaign proposed to Adnkronos Salute by the epidemiologist Massimo Ciccozzi, professor of medical statistics and epidemiology at the Campus BioMedico University of Rome. “I’m not saying to show the dead, for heaven’s sake, I don’t want to – the doctor specifies – But to show those who couldn’t breathe, yes, because not being able to breathe is terrible. Those who delude themselves into protecting themselves with herd immunity do a big deal. error “, Ciccozzi warns, recalling that” herd immunity serves to protect people who for some reason cannot be vaccinated at all. It does not serve to protect healthy people who can be vaccinated and do not want to “. “To oblige is always a bad word, but perhaps in certain cases as if you work in a hospital or if you are in contact with children at school, maybe the government can think about it”, he says referring to the obligation. “To oblige a person – he says – is always an uncomfortable thing, I prefer that the person is well informed and aware of what is happening. Having said that, we have many mandatory vaccines, but this is up to the political decision makers. We can only give the data and express a scientific opinion “.” I would prefer that people intelligently understand that they have to get vaccinated because if we don’t get vaccinated we don’t get out of this situation. Then it is clear that the French trick has paid off with 2 million bookings in 2 days. But I hope that the Italian population , given that we are very intelligent, can have a greater awareness and autonomously understand that one must vaccinate “, he says, answering a question on the hypothesis of adopting relative to the Green Pass as happened in France. “Then if the government wants to adopt this solution to convince people who are still not convinced, who knows why – he underlines – it could be a small push as it happened in France. In short, everything makes broth, as they say. Of course – he observes – we, more than repeating every day that we have to get vaccinated, and that even if we get infected we no longer have the problem of the symptoms of the disease, we don’t go to intensive care and we don’t die anymore, we can’t do it “.