Green Pass school, Andreoni: “Only one solution obligation”

“For the safe return to school I see no other solution than the Green pass, both for teachers and school staff. We are witnessing the demonstration that vaccines work and help us against Covid, just look at what is happening in Sicily , one of the Regions with the lowest vaccination rate, with a resurgence of cases “. This was underlined by Massimo Andreoni, scientific director of the Italian Society of Infectious and Tropical Diseases (Simit) and head of Infectious Diseases at the Tor Vergata Polyclinic in Rome, taking stock of the upcoming reopening of schools. “If we think that you need a Green pass to eat in a restaurant, I don’t see why anyone who enters a school shouldn’t have it”, remarks the infectious disease specialist, who judges “the correct choice to extend the Green pass deadline” to 12 months. “There is an ineluctable need, even before the third dose, to reach satisfactory vaccination coverage since the Delta variant has raised the bar and I don’t think we can stay away from 95%. convince the hesitant “, remembers Andreoni. “Then more data and studies on vaccine immunity are arriving – observes the infectious disease specialist – and from what is shown 12 months are a probable period of time for which immunity covers well from serious illness. there was talk of 6 months then 9 and now 12. This is also because today, after almost 10 months of vaccinations, we can better monitor the immunity of the vaccinated “