Covid, Abrignani (Cts): “Vaccine obligation and we protect the fragile”

“I would start with all public employees and those who interact with the public. But the Scientific Technical Committee is an advisory body only and has Brusaferro as its spokesperson. Any scientist or researcher wants the vaccination obligation. Because it is true that one in 4 vaccinated can get infected again, but does not go to intensive care and does not die of Covid “. Thus Sergio Abrignani, immunologist at the State University of Milan and member of the Technical Scientific Committee, in an interview with ‘Il Giorno’ answers the question on the possible extension of Law 76 on the obligation for health professionals to other categories. Is the obligation necessary to vaccinate the 4 million resistant? “We have many effective vaccines and we are still discussing whether they are mandatory. It is expected for diphtheria and polio, much less contagious and lethal than Covid. It is surreal, I do not understand what we are waiting for. It is not a problem of freedom, but of protection of half a million fragile Italians left at the mercy of those who could kill them by infecting them “, observes Abrignani. “In Italy – he adds – there is a scheme according to which those who are in favor of vaccines are on the left and those who are against are on the right. It is colossal nonsense. I hope that some politicians who ride the no vax theses do not really think what they are they say. Faced with 138 thousand dead from the pandemic and a country that has lost 10% of its wealth, one cannot be irresponsible “. Can 85% of vaccinated people be enough to return to normal? “Let’s look at Great Britain, which started vaccinating two months before us. In the summer they recorded 60 thousand infected a day and 70-80 deaths, just over 1 per thousand. In February, with the same infections, 1,500 died. per day. The incidence of the vaccine is evident, despite the infections being high due to the first Alpha and then Delta variants. If we had not vaccinated in Italy, the deaths would have been from 15 thousand to 18 thousand per month, as in the hardest period since November to March “, remembers Abrignani.