The data of the daily infections continue to give a stationary mapping of the evolution of the epidemic in our country. The Ministry of Health reports that they have been registered in the last 24 hours 23.225 new positive cases (yesterday 20.709). The new deaths are 993 (yesterday 684) while the increase in tampons is equal to 226.729 (207.143). Again according to ministerial data, 846.809 people have been discharged and healed while the current positives are 759.982 (1248 less than yesterday). "Between the second and third quarter of next year we will potentially be in a position to vaccinate the entire population". Thus the emergency commissioner, Dominic Arcuri, during the hearing of the joint committees of Transport and Social Affairs of the Chamber. Arcuri added that "Italy is entitled to 13,46 percent of the vaccine doses that will be gradually distributed from Europe".
Herd immunity
"With regard to herd immunity, scientific experts tell us that at least 60 percent of citizens must be vaccinated - added Arcuri -. We hope that, also thanks to a massive communication campaign, we can overcome the obstacles that exist regarding the reluctance to undergo the vaccine ". “On December 29th and January 12th, the EMA will decide on the documentation provided by Pfizer and Moderna on anti-Covid vaccines.
This should allow 3,4 million doses to vaccinate 1,7 million people. In the second half of January, vaccinations are scheduled to begin, then the available doses will increase and, by the end of summer or early autumn, we should have completed the administration of the largest mass vaccination campaign that has ever taken place in the country ". Like this Franco Locatelli, president of the Higher Council of Health (Css) and member of the technical-scientific committee (Cts).
Declining data and correct information on vaccines
“The way to obtain herd coverage with about 70 percent of the vaccinated population, to stop the circulation of Sars-Cov-2 - specified Locatelli - is to provide information in a complete and transparent way. This, in order to create a culture of vaccinations thanks to which humanity got rid of fatal diseases such as polio and smallpox ”. Locatelli points out: "On how long the immunity conferred by vaccines will last, only observation will give us a solid, complete and definitive answer".
Those who have had Covid do not have to get vaccinated
On another front he intervened instead the scientific director of the Spallanzani Institute in Rome, Joseph Hippolytus: “Those who have had Covid - he said - should not be vaccinated against the disease because they have developed natural antibodies. If anything, he'll have to check the level of these antibodies. And when these should go down, a vaccination can be reconsidered ”.
