The mandatory nature of the anti-covid vaccination causes the scientific world to debate.
"I would make the anti-Covid vaccine mandatory only when it is clear that the vaccinated person is no longer contagious to others, that is, that the vaccine guarantees both the vaccine and those who have not yet had the dose".
The president of the Board of Bioethics Maurizio Mori told ANSA, "In this phase - he added - we must be flexible, insisting on the obligation would end up causing only a few shields. This is a moment in which greater clarity is needed, make people understand that if the vaccine is safe, it is in the interest of both the individual and the community. "
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I would be quite cautious with respect to the hypothesis of the compulsory nature of the anti-Covid vaccine: I believe that ethically obliging medical treatment must absolutely represent an exception".
This was stated to ANSA by the president of
the National Bioethics Committee (CNB)
Lorenzo D'Avack, underlining how, "in this first phase, it is essential to encourage propaganda in favor of vaccination. The obligation should be considered as a last resort ".
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All health workers, starting with doctors, must be vaccinated against Covid and if they do not want to be vaccinated they must be suspended from the service
because, in fact, they cannot be suitable for the service they perform".
This is the position expressed to ANSA by Giuseppe Ippolito, scientific director of the Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases in Rome.
In other words, Ippolito emphasizes,
"there are professional categories that must be absolutely vaccinated;
this is to protect themselves but also others, due to the extensive contacts that the same categories must have with the population. Those who do not accept it cannot exercise the specific ones. professions ".
For this reason, he explains, "all health workers cannot avoid being vaccinated, as they represent sources of risk for others".
Faced with a refusal of the anti-Covid vaccination, concludes the scientific director of Spallanzani, "they should be suspended from service, as they are not suitable for its performance".
Meanwhile, only two out of ten operators in the 85 rsa of Pavia are willing to be vaccinated against Covid
, a low figure that worries and not just the Ats.
"We must fully grasp the importance of this vaccine and nursing home operators cannot escape this", the general manager of Ats Mara Azzi told the Province of Pavia. "It is unthinkable - he added - that only 20% of RSA operators want to protect themselves against the virus. When one is in contact day and night with elderly and frail people, there are conditions for thinking that a real obligation weighs on them ".