Covid, “90% of resuscitation patients are not vaccinated”

“The available data indicate that 80-90% of people who go to resuscitation are unvaccinated. And this is a demonstration of how important the vaccine is.” Filippo Anelli, president of the National Federation of Medical Orders (Fnomceo), tells Adnkronos Salute. “I invite Italians who do not want to get vaccinated to reflect strongly and understand how these infectious diseases require all of us to make an important commitment, that is to be willing to get vaccinated”, he adds. And it is not a question of a commitment only as Italians, underlines Anelli. “The problem, in this case, concerns the whole world. The determination of the World Health Organization to start vaccination also in Third World countries – in order to reduce the spread of the pandemic and the possibility of developing non-responsive variants to current vaccines – is a fundamental objective. The diffusion of vaccination at a global level must also be a priority compared to the third dose that could be made in Italy, in consideration of the scarcity of vaccines produced “. The Minister of Health Speranza, continued Anelli , “he has already said that we are ready for the third dose, especially for the frail. I remember, however, that if a different variant were to develop that creates problems of resistance to the vaccine, we would risk going back. So let’s try to be in solidarity, to think also to other countries. As Pope Francis says, ‘we are all in the same boat’, it is an image that helps to understand better than any and the other the phenomenon of the pandemic worldwide “, concluded Anelli.