"We cannot continue with the slogan 'no Dad, safe school' because this is in fact not possible in a moment of circulation of a virus that doubles cases every two days. It is evident that what the principals are asking, that is to use these two weeks to boost vaccination is reasonable. "
Thus the president of the Gimbe Foundation, Nino Cartabellotta, in an intervention taken up by the press agencies. "But two weeks of Dad without any intervention to increase vaccination coverage in these age groups can leave the time it finds. It is evident that with this viral circulation it will be very difficult to keep classes in attendance," he added.
Cartabellotta then observed: "Now everything has been focused on vaccinations, but for example, as regards the age group 5-11 we have done in three weeks about 400 thousand vaccinations which for some are many, but in reality there are still 3 million and 200 thousand children to be vaccinated. 900 thousand of them still remain in the 12-19 age group. This Christmas period was to be used to better invest in communication and vaccination for the entire 5-19 year age group who would have returned to schools ".
"The positivity rate of the molecular - added Cartabellotta - is 24% and that of the antigenic pad has exceeded 8%. These data tell us that the virus is circulating a lot. It is true that the Omicron variant in the single subject can give a less severe disease, 40% less likely to be hospitalized, but it is also true that with these numbers, if about 1 percent go to hospital and 1 per thousand go to intensive care, we are discussing numbers very high absolute ".
"Last night we had almost 14 thousand patients in the medical area and almost 1470 in intensive care - he explained - the hospital wave of this surge of infections we will see in the coming weeks, in some regions we are already beginning to see field hospitals, black areas, in short, a somewhat critical situation ".
(Unioneonline / vl)
