There will be no lockdown, not even partial: Professor
Walter Ricciardi
, consultant of the Ministry of Health,
says this in an interview with Il Messaggero
, indicating a series of possible interventions to protect Italy from the advance of the fourth wave coming from East:
faster sanctions against doctors and nurses No vax; analysis, Asl for Asl, to verify if among the patients of a particular doctor's office there are many who are not vaccinated, to run for cover; push vigorously on the third doses, connecting them to the Green pass: those who do not complete the vaccination cycle with the booster first receive a warning and, if after two or three months they still do not comply with the reinforcement injection, green certification loses its validity
.
Compared to health workers, No vax "is a serious problem throughout Italy - he comments -. Quantitatively, the number of doctors and health workers in general who reject the vaccine are not many, but they can cause enormous damage because they have a wide capacity to influence patients, their clients ". The various orders of doctors "must act, and often do. But the procedures must be made much more streamlined".
To explain to the Italians the need for the third dose, it should be clarified that "180 days after the second dose you are protected from the serious consequences of the disease, but much less from infection". If the number of infections increases "and if the third dose campaign is slow, then it will be right to think of more incisive tools". In addition to health workers, the third dose must be necessary "for all those who work in contact with the frail. For example teachers, since children are not protected as they cannot be vaccinated". With the Delta variant "this pandemic has changed, one infected person infects seven others on average. To stop it, we should achieve vaccination for almost the entire population".
Meanwhile, the president of the ISS and spokesman for the CTS,
Sivio Brusaferro
launches an appeal: to get
vaccinated to curb the rise of the contagion curve
.
Brusaferro, interviewed by Corriere, asks everyone to collaborate.
With 78 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants, the threshold that allows to limit the outbreaks has been exceeded
and the high number of tampons does not justify the increase in cases: the rise, he explains, is due to intense circulation in Europe, and is sustained a lot from the unvaccinated and a certain relaxation in behavior.
"Now it is difficult to predict. Other countries are adopting restrictions, but at the moment they have much higher numbers than ours."