Covid vaccine, Abrignani (Cts): “Safer summer, yes to obligation”

“I am very much in favor, I would immediately propose the vaccination obligation for the entire population. For months I have been saying that with a pandemic of this type, which has already caused 130 thousand deaths, has a lethality of 2% and kills 3-4% of unvaccinated over 60s, it should be the duty of a country that cares about public health to have the vaccination obligation “. This was said to ‘The numbers of the pandemic’, on Sky Tg24, by the immunologist of the State University of Milan and member of the CTS, Sergio Abrignani. “Then it is likely that, for more political than scientific reasons, we will move towards obligations by groups: perhaps all the part of the population that works in the public or that has contact with the public will be vaccinated in an obligatory way – he adds – But if you ask to those who deal with infectious diseases or immunology can only say that the best way to contain an infectious disease is certainly mass vaccination, and this can be achieved with the obligation to vaccinate. “” Thanks to vaccines – Abrignani summer is not catastrophic. It is a situation that requires a lot of attention, but not panic, because in the end there are fewer infections than we expected and those that have been seen in countries with the same variant, the same type of tourism, the same number of vaccinated. . We also consider that there has been an underestimation, which we can have on infections, of two to three times. Therefore, it did not go so badly, probably because the peak of infections, from mid-July to August and therefore in the months when people are more outdoors, coincided with the greater diffusion of the delta variant, which reached saturation ”.