Is everything clear after Draghi’s words on heterologous vaccination?
The italics of Umberto Minopoli, manager and essayist, on heterologous vaccination
Today I have to make the call of Astrazeneca. But the government's conduct made me doubt: it was misinformative, fluctuating, contradictory and catastrophic in effect. And, I'm sorry, this time the Prime Minister has put his part in it.
A week ago, the government announced a line: heterologous under 60 requirement and Astrazeneca vaccine and similar limited only to over 60s.
Result: everyone gets scared.
Those over 60, like me, think: something that is dangerous for those who are 50, 57, 60 (to the point of banning it), how does it become calm if you are 61, 67 or 70 years old?
Could the virus be able to read the degree of aging of human cells? No, just statistics.
So why ban it just under 60?
The suspicion becomes: if they force you to change vaccines under the age of 60, it means that Astra is dangerous. If they limit it to over 60, it is only in order not to throw away the doses and not to upset the vaccination campaign.
A gamble. Which, in fact, upsets the countryside. P.
er a double misunderstanding: on the heterologous, imposed while swarms of doctors say that there would be no tests and data to say that it is safe; on Astrazeneca, allowed to those over the age of 60, but on the basis of an argument devoid of scientificity or objectivity.
The result is that everyone, ultra60 and minus60, gets scared. The diligent and efficient Lazio Region points out this.
Result: everything changes again in 7 days. Now the heterologous is no longer compulsory under the age of 60, but only “allowed”; the Astrazeneca remains over 60 years old.
Clear? Not at all.
Open the newspaper and read that the Prime Minister makes the recall with the heterologous. They explain that he has to do it because he has few antibodies.
Therefore, those over 60 who have the Astra booster should take the antibody test before doing so. And who had told us so far? Why didn't you make it? Result: I, who had no doubts about my Astrazeneca recall, now have them.
I will not give up the call, which I have in a few hours, but I will ask this question to the doctor: it seems to you a doctor who, with this government conduct of the last week, I have the data, sufficient and reassuring, to express "informed consent" what do they call it, at the recall with Astrazeneca?
I will record your reply for future reference. But I'll get the vaccine: I want to get out of the nightmare.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/tutto-chiaro-dopo-le-parole-di-draghi-sulla-vaccinazione-eterologa/ on Sat, 19 Jun 2021 07:15:54 +0000.