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March 28, 2021 The virus slows down the race, but does not slow down.
"The data show a slight decline in the contagiousness index. The RT fell from 1.16 to 1.08, the infected are 9 thousand fewer". Thus Franco Locatelli, president of the Superior Health Council, at "Che tempo that does "on Raitre.
Therefore the restrictive measures must be maintained because" the circulation of the virus is very widespread and the load on intensive care is 39% with 3,700 hospitalized, close to the peak of the first wave, with 4,063 hospitalized in intensive care ".
For Locatelli it is very important that health personnel be vaccinated.
"Those who go to hospitals must have all the guarantees that everything has been done to prevent contagion, and the measures also include vaccination of health personnel".
But the doses are not just for adults, because the sera approved in Europe have a pediatric development plan.
"We start with adolescents and then go down in age, but it is important to test and evaluate them and then proceed with vaccination even in children", Locatelli underlined.
"In the first group of vaccinated people, the age criterion was followed. The use of RNA vaccines was recommended to health workers and the over 80s, and to the extremely vulnerable population. For the other categories, all three vaccines are fine. , and also for AstraZeneca it has now been ascertained that it is effective and safe even for the slightly older population, "said Locatelli.
On the Astrazeneca affair, the president of the Superior Health Council underlined how the pharmacovigilance mechanism worked: "The AIFA takes note of the decisions of the EMA, which is made up of members designated by the national regulatory agencies. The German authority had launched a alarm about the possibility of disseminated intravascular coagulation. But when the analysis documented that there were no such risks, the EMA was able to give the ok ".