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09 January 2021

"I believe that ethically everyone must take the vaccine, it is an ethical option, because you stake your health, your life, but you also play the lives of others".

Pope Francis says this in an exclusive interview with Mediaset, in a passage that will be broadcast this evening on Tg5.

"Next week", explains Francesco, "we will start doing it here" in the Vatican "and I have booked, it must be done".



"When I was a child - says Bergoglio - I remember that there was the crisis of polio and many children were then paralyzed and there was desperation to get the vaccine. When the vaccine came out they gave it to you with sugar and c 'there were so many desperate mothers ... then we grew up in the shadow of vaccines, for measles, for that, for that other, vaccines they gave us as children ... ".



"I don't know why someone says 'no, the vaccine is dangerous', but if doctors present it to you as something that can be fine, that has no special dangers, why not take it? There is a suicidal denial that I I don't know how to explain, but today we have to take the vaccine ".



The attack on the US Congress


In the course of the interview, Pope Francis also talks about what happened in the US, the attack on Capitol Hill: "I was amazed because it is such a disciplined people in democracy".

However, Francis observes, even "in the most mature realities there is always something wrong", there are people "who take a path against the community, against democracy, against the common good".

Violence is certainly to be condemned, the Pope continues, "this movement must be condemned in this way, regardless of the people".

"No people - he continues - can boast of not having one day, a case of violence" and therefore it is a question of "understanding well so as not to repeat and learn from history".

In any case, the Pope continues, "understanding is fundamental because this can be remedied".