Controversy over some words of Professor Andrea Crisanti, director of microbiology and virology at the University of Padua who yesterday, speaking at Focus Live, the "Focus" scientific dissemination festival, had emphasized: the first vaccine that arrives in January, "
without data, not I do it
, because I want to be reassured that it has been tested and meets all safety and efficacy criteria.
As a citizen, I am entitled to it, I am not willing to accept shortcuts "." Vaccines work, I am very much in favor of it, but these vaccines were developed by skipping the sequence of phases 1, 2 and 3 - continues - By doing phase 1, 2 and 3 in parallel, in fact, all the problems of the various phases are brought together.
It is true that we arrive first, but then we need a whole revision process behind it, which is not very easy to do ".
"I believe - the reply of the Deputy Minister of Health Pierpaolo Sileri to Rainews24 on the subject - that
Crisanti is wrong: the vaccine will be safe
. When it arrives. And I will fall into the categories that can do it immediately, I will do it".
Sileri then explained: "On the coronavirus vaccine, first of all we will have to wait for the certification of the regulatory body. It is true that everything went very quickly, but it is also the first time that so much funding has been made, and it is the first time that volunteers are found for experimentation in such a rapid time. It is the first time that the world is confronted with something new ".
"Professor Crisanti's statements on the anti-Covid vaccine - wrote the infectious specialist Matteo Bassetti on Facebook - are very serious. Insinuating doubts about the scientific nature of vaccines is anachronistic and misleading for people".
"If I or my colleague Alberto Zangrillo had said something like this, what would have happened?" He adds.
"The only way, apart from the lockdown, to be able to get rid of sarsCov2 is to create herd immunity. So - said the president of the Higher Health Council Franco Locatelli at the press conference at the Ministry of Health - vaccination is essential, as moral duty towards oneself and towards others. If there were the first vaccine in Italy today Franco locatelli would do it without the slightest hesitation. All the more reason this moral sense must permeate the professional staff on the front line ".
"I was asked a question: would you do it today? - Crisanti then specified to ANSA - Today I would not do the vaccine because there are only data relating to company announcements and because today there is not enough knowledge".
"When the scientific community has examined it - he said - I'll do it. I don't understand where the problem is. I am one of the signatories-proponents of the flu vaccination, how can I be against a vaccine? This is an authentic exploitation. I'm saying that to make a vaccine, I personally want it approved and I want to see the data. "