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June 14, 2021 "There have been two serious and repeated errors in the Italian management of the pandemic: the lack of government scientific communication and the abdication of age and frailty in the vaccination campaign. Citizens should be reassured by preferring pragmatically for all, even if perhaps not logically, mRna vaccines and postponing the vaccination of young people to end the over 50s and also to collect more data on the consequences in children ". So Silvio Garattini, president of the Mario Negri Institute of Pharmacological Research in Milan, interviewed by

"There are too many voices that end up frightening the population. It is the fault of the virality of government opinions above all. If there was a single official voice, then everyone could say what they want and perhaps they would be less listened to".

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, for which there is a positive indication of some studies", continues Garattini, for whom the vaccination campaign in Italy is in any case late: "We risk going beyond September, and also on this more transparency would be needed. The future? I don't know, but if I were in the government I would prepare for the worst. Duration and variations are a threat. "

And on heterologous vaccination, also interviewed by

adds: "An English and a Spanish study indicate that after AstraZeneca a messenger RNA vaccine can be made, obtaining a good result from the point of view of the antibody response. At the level of safety there is no problem. they are theoretical reasons for thinking that two different vaccines cannot be used ".

On the new change on AstraZeneca "a lot of confusion has been made and in fact citizens have so many doubts, justified" there is a lack of an efficient communication system on the part of the national health service. The final responsible is the Ministry of Health. It has the task of make decisions and explain them well ". According to Garattini "at the government level there had to be a person who, with the help of others, represented the opinion of the health authority every day. He illustrated what was happening and the decisions that were made. Here announcements are made but not explained". After what happened, will we stick to the time frame for herd immunity? "We are a bit behind. Today 14 million people have completed the vaccination cycle. They are few. Other countries are ahead of us.And then not that 70% coverage is enough for herd immunity, which in any case means 42 million Italians. We are missing many "." We risk going beyond September, and even on this we need greater transparency.