Vaia: "There are no series A and B vaccines, they all cover variants"

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May 16, 2021

"There is no ranking of series A and B vaccines. They are all valid." A clear statement from the Director of Spallanzani Francesco Vaia who continues: "The ranking was created by bad communication, stammering and improvised interventions even in European headquarters where someone said: we will no longer buy this vaccine. But he did not explain why he does not buy it ".

"If you say these things - he added - the disorientation increases. It is now proven that vaccines cover the variants and we are told by advanced studies and the vaccination campaign of some countries such as Israel and England. Who should be infected again, asymptomatic , he won't go to hospital, he doesn't risk anything. That's why it's essential to get vaccinated ". The vaccines, Vaia recalls, will now arrive in pharmacies, probably the one chosen will be Johnson.

Vaia speaks with reassuring tones of the variants explaining that: “we have found many benign variants because in fact, it is not certain that the virus always changes for the worse. Any virus changes because it tries to adapt to the environment. Sometimes it does it in a more dangerous way, with greater contagiousness or danger. Sometimes, however, it causes the disease to come in a less severe form. Even the Indian variant that scares so much. In concrete experience, in empiricism supported by reliable data, I say that we have found many variants that are benign and have not caused an increase in infectiousness or disease in a serious way. Does the vaccine save us from variants? The vaccines that we have in the field - he stressed - are now all sufficient to avoid developing the disease in a serious form or lead to mortality or hospitalization. All.Conversely, on the other hand, it is not that there are vaccines that protect you one hundred percent, it may be that there is a percentage of a 6 or 7% that does not protect and then there are the 'non-responders', those who do not respond at all. to the vaccine ".

On the arrival of the holidays, Vaia said that citizens "must go, for this, we must organize public health for vaccinations in vacation places, even going so far as to do so at the airport. When we say that we need to help tourism, we must We will do it, for example in Fiumicino with which we have a close agreement. "

The possibility of using them explains Spallanzani Director Francesco Vaia is being studied." Using monoclonals as passive immunity, that is, directly the antibodies to who did not produce them with the vaccine. It would be the perfect marriage, two tools that can be integrated "

When asked about the vaccination plan and the government's choices, Vaia replied that "Commissioner Figliuolo and President Draghi are working very well, in the right direction".