Green Pass, Galli: “Priority is persuading Italians to get vaccinated”

“The Green Pass to access workplaces can and must be discussed. The priority is to persuade Italians to get vaccinated, but without obligations”. Massimo Galli, full professor of Infectious Diseases at the State University and primary at the Sacco of Milan, tells the press, underlining that “vaccines have changed history and will protect us from the fourth wave, but we must all be vaccinated in Italy and beyond otherwise the game will not end unless the virus weakens on its own. Unfortunately, some regions are slow. I agree to a certain extent in replacing hospitalizations for infections as a criterion for the yellow zones. It reminds me of Johnson and the theory of ‘you get infected, but you don’t end up in the hospital’. In addition to the holidays, the delay in defining the Green Pass is paid and I feel too much concern about the short and long-term effects of vaccines and little about those of Covid “. The new Green Pass, according to the infectious disease specialist, “will bring a positive effect like in France. Instead, it confuses the attitude towards the recovered, who deserve the Green Pass even without vaccinations. In community situations the Green Pass is useful. The Ministry of Health will decide. As for asking for a dose in restaurants and two in discos, I have some doubts about the controls, which seem to me more secure in big events, cinemas and theaters. “Meanwhile, public transport runs full.” This is why masks are still important “, Replies Galli, who explains that” it is necessary to reduce the circulation of the infection by increasing the number of vaccinated people, hence the usefulness of the extension of the Green Pass as a means of persuasion. The obligation to vaccinate? Only for doctors and nurses of the public service , and even here let us remember those recovered who may not be vaccinated. ”Regarding the possibility of a third dose being needed, Galli affirms that“ it is not said, except in particular cases such as fragile people or on which the vaccine had no effect. Pfizer pushes for the third dose, but in the event that it is an updated version to the new variants and not the re-release of the old vaccine. “As for the reopening of the school in the presence,” teachers must be persuaded to vacc get in on time, also because they are more at risk than students. Then we will not be able to have all the children covered for September, also because vaccination is currently authorized for up to 12 years, but an epidemiological surveillance system could be put in place to prevent them from becoming the main reservoir of the virus. It must be explained that they can rarely get sick, but without young people Italy cannot be secured, so they must keep their masks generously and run to get vaccinated ”.