Green pass Italy, doctors: “Extend to 12 months for everyone”

“The government would do well to immediately bring the validity of the green pass to 12 months. And then decide, subsequently, evaluating the evolution and scientific knowledge, how to proceed for everyone”. To tell Adnkronos Salute, the president of the National Federation of Medical Orders (Fnomceo), Filippo Anelli, about the upcoming expiry of the green certificate for health workers, the first to have been immunized with the covid vaccine. “There is no need to create different paths, at the moment, for doctors and health workers, the general extension to one year is enough for the validity”, adds Anelli. Read also “The duration of the Green pass – adds Anelli – should be permanent since, to date, there is no evidence that the vaccine does not work over time. Making it periodic validity, defining an expiration date, represents an attitude of prudence of the Government, which may be understandable and acceptable, but in any case responds more to organizational reasons than to motivations related to the effective validity of the vaccine “, concludes Anelli.” We cannot be faced with the absurdity of doctors and health workers who will soon find themselves with the expired Green pass “, the appeal launched by Carlo Palermo, national secretary of Anaao-Assomed, the union of doctors of the National Health Service. The Green pass is “a very important document whose value should be even more stringent also to induce the uncertain to get vaccinated – recalls Palermo – The first vaccinated doctors will see the certificate expire in October, so the Government should intervene and bring the deadline to the 9 current months at least 12 pending news from science on the duration of vaccine immunity “. There are “700,000 public health workers, but this reaches 2 million for the entire sector”, the secretary specifies, “it is therefore necessary to take a clear decision to prevent problems from being created”. “The question from the point of view general is not well defined from a scientific point of view – continues Palermo – The various experts have variable positions on the duration of vaccination immunity, there are those who speak of nine months and those of a year. We should wait for developments from the studies, for example in the Kingdom United are starting with an analysis of the data of the vaccinated. An indication from the WHO has highlighted that before the third dose of vaccine it is necessary to vaccinate the populations of poor countries. In any case – he warns – there is now a need. administrative issues, to extend the Green pass to health workers who are at the forefront of the fight against the pandemic that in a few weeks will see the certificate expire. Italy could lead the way in Europe on this front “. how should the government intervene? “I think that first we need an opinion from the CTS on the matter, but if we go to evaluate the data expressed by some regulatory bodies, the most likely thing is that there will be an extension of the validity period of the Green pass”, concludes the The validity of the Green pass changes according to the way it is issued. In case of vaccine received, for the first dose of vaccines requiring two, the certificate will be generated from the 15th day after administration and will be valid until the next dose; in the event of a second dose or single dose due to a previous infection, the certification will be generated within the following two days and will be valid for 9 months (270 days) from the date of administration; for the single-dose vaccine the Green pass will be generated from the 15th day after administration and will be valid for 9 months.In cases of negative swab the Covid certificate will be generated in a few hours and will be valid for 48 hours from the time of collection. In cases of healing it will be generated within the following day and will be valid for 180 days. So those who are healed can get the Green pass but from the date of healing the certificate is valid only for the following six months.