Vaccination obligation, Sileri: “No need now”

“At this moment the obligation is not necessary. I see more an enlargement of the green pass in Italy”. Pierpaolo Sileri, Undersecretary of Health, thus answers the questions on the hypothesis of inserting the obligation to vaccinate against the coronavirus. “The numbers are on our side. We can speak of obligation if the epidemic accelerates and people do not get vaccinated. Today vaccinations are increasing, we will reach the target of 80% of the vaccinated population. The possibility of pulling out the obligation from the drawer is the extreme ratio. Then: for whom would the obligation serve? With which vaccine? “, Sileri asks On air. “At this moment we cannot impose the obligation because vaccines are not yet ‘free’ in the market. If the EMA also ruled on Pfizer”, as the FDA did in the United States with full authorization, “we would have only one ‘free’ vaccine. The obligation, then, would serve to reach a target that we would reach anyway in a few days. The obligation cannot be a topic on the agenda. We will arrive at the end of September and see how many people are vaccinated. the real problem -he points out- are the 3.8 million unvaccinated over 50s. The number is decreasing, let’s wait a couple of weeks and see the figures. third dose: “It is right that the third dose be given but we have to tell who, when and with which vaccine. We know that the ‘who’ concerns immunosuppressed subjects. The ‘who’ could extend to older subjects”, he hypothesizes first to highlight that even the ‘when’ is a theme of pri mary importance. “If in a transmission like this we say ‘third dose since October’, my mother who got vaccinated in April thinks she must immediately redo a new vaccine. Next year, then, I hope for other vaccines: maybe version 2.0. o 3.0 of current vaccines, with higher efficacy “,