Covid Italia, Pregliasco: “Toxic vaccines? Terrifying fake news”

“It is essential to deny the hoax about the toxicity of vaccines and to reiterate that” these are not born “like a rabbit with a hat but are the result of over ten years of research technology”. This was stated by the virologist Fabrizio Pregliasco, a professor at the State University of Milan, commenting on the fake news spread in recent days on social media and built on a false letterhead of the Cardarelli hospital in Naples, in which the toxicity of anti-Covid vaccines was documented. “These fake news are terrifying – says the virologist to Adnkronos Salute – because they are elements that, in a context of gullible or doubters, reconfirm that there is a basis of distrust towards institutions and transparency. A transparency that sometimes it played badly because what was said about the AstraZeneca vaccine and side effects had to be seen as a sign of spasmodic attention to transparency and instead it turned against us “. As regards the contagion situation in Italy, Pregliasco affirms that “it is an explosive mix of elements” to bring Sicily and Sardinia towards the yellow zone. “It is clear that by facilitating tourism we have facilitated the spread of the virus on the whole, and there is: we have to live and live with this presence. Not surprisingly – notes the expert – all the regions with a tourist vocation are in more or less bad shape “. But in addition to this, a role is played by “a series of overall aspects: the share of vaccinated people, their behavior and the share of bed availability”. According to Pregliasco, “there is also a problem also linked to the number of inhabitants: with a macroscopic increase in people it is natural – highlights the virologist – that there is a problem of saturation of beds. In short, it is a mix: fewer vaccinations, more people, structures more in difficulty and these are the results “.” The current yellow area – he still observes – is a much more discolored yellow than the restrictions it previously envisaged “, therefore the possible passage of the regions in yellow risks being “a little symbolic”. “It is however a useful element to give more attention to the situation but it is a first step that risks having to foresee further restrictions because – recalls Pregliasco – it has been seen that the more serious restrictions have given an overall effectiveness. So the yellow zone current “which only provides for the obligation to wear masks outdoors and indoors and a smaller number of diners in restaurants, without the introduction of restrictions for travel or curfews,” could only be a transition towards orange “.