Vaccine covid, Crisanti: “Approval opens the way to obligation”

“The vaccine is now definitively approved. Does this pave the way for mandatory vaccination? Of course.” Professor Andrea Crisanti, director of the Department of Molecular Medicine at the University of Padua, expresses himself this way after the definitive approval of the Pfizer vaccine in the United States: the Food and Drug Administration has decreed the authorization for all subjects over 16 years of age. “This removes any alibi. The vaccine was authorized in an emergency on the basis of data that justified this authorization. This opens the way to the obligation? Of course,” Crisanti told In Onda, on La7. “An approved vaccine certifies that there are no risks for people who undergo the vaccination and in some way the obligation is justified. Ema and Aifa generally follow the FDA: I expect the European and Italian bodies to adopt the the same measure is a matter of days “, he adds. In Italy, spotlights on Sicily. The region risks moving into the yellow zone due to the increase in infections and the saturation of intensive care. “The case of Sicily shows us what happens if important levels of protection are not achieved. The level of protection we will have in October-November depends on 3 factors. The first depends on the duration of the protection induced by the vaccine, we do not know for sure. even if some data indicate that it does not last beyond 10-12 months. Then, it depends on the percentage of people vaccinated. And finally it depends on the emergence of variants resistant to the vaccine. These 3 factors combined will tell us what will happen in the fall, “he says again. Chapter third dose: “If the third dose is necessary we will have to think about it, if the data from Israel will tell us that the third dose protects. If the variants are resistant to the vaccine, 3 or 4 doses can be done but the problem does not change: we should update the vaccine “.