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Neither with vaccines nor against vaccines: what does the government think?

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Neither with vaccines nor against vaccines: what does the government think?

The Undersecretary of Health, Marcello Gemmato of Fratelli d'Italia, said he did not want to fall into the trap of taking sides for or against vaccines. But whoever holds that office can say such a thing? Circle of tweets

While on the one hand the Councilor for Welfare of the Lombardy Region, Guido Bertolaso, does not welcome the reinstatement of no-vax doctors decided by the executive in office and states that "a doctor who says he is against vaccination says something inevitably against nature" , on the other hand, the Undersecretary of Health, the pharmacist Marcello Gemmato, of the Brothers of Italy says he does not want to fall into the trap of taking sides for or against vaccines.

Will it be a new nut to crack for Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni?

WHAT GEMMATO THINKS ABOUT VACCINES

“I record that for a large part of the pandemic, Italy was first in terms of mortality and third in lethality, so I don't see these great results”. This is what Gemmato declared last night during ReStart on Rai Due.

Then when the deputy director of Corriere della Sera , Aldo Cazzullo, points out that without vaccines it would have been worse, the undersecretary replies: "You say this, we don't have the burden of proof but I don't fall into the trap of taking sides for or against vaccines”.

WHAT GEMMATO THINKS ABOUT THE REINSTATEMENT OF NO-VAX DOCTORS…

But Gemmato's intervention didn't end there. On the subject of the early reintegration of health personnel who have not undergone the anti-Covid vaccination, he said: "Politics is once again central, up to now there has been an ideological approach to managing the pandemic".

“Right now – continues the undersecretary – we have 2% of intensive care units occupied. The virus runs but does not hospitalize, we simply anticipated what would have happened in 6-7 weeks anyway. If in this way we have put 4,000, 400 or even just 1 doctor back on the field, and this has saved the life of some people, have we rendered a service to the Italian people or not?”.

ALL CHIRPS IN ANSWER TO GEMMATO

Obviously there was no lack of reactions to Gemmato's words. Even before they came from the political field from the director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the San Martino Polyclinic in Genoa, Matteo Bassetti, who entrusted Twitter with a comment:

Even Aureliano Stingi, doctor in molecular biology, reiterates on his social channel the evidence of the benefits brought by vaccines to the pandemic and replies to the undersecretary that "To argue that we have no proof of the effectiveness of the #COVID19 vaccines is like saying that we have no proof that the sun warms the earth".

And the president of Gimbe, Nino Cartabellotta, asks for an answer from the Minister of Health, Orazio Schillaci, "Otherwise it is silent assent":

Flurry of tweets also from all opposition political forces. From the secretary of the Democratic Party, Enrico Letta:

Moving on to the indignation of the secretary of Più Europa, Benedetto Della Vedova, who directly asks the prime minister "if she wants to correct this position too or if that's okay with her":

And also comes the request for resignation by the deputy dem Matteo Orfini for "manifest ignorance":

To which is added the leader of Action, Carlo Calenda, who believes that Gemmato is in the wrong place:

Among those who instead openly side with Gemmato is the deputy of the Lega Alex Bazzaro:

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/sanita/ne-con-i-vaccini-ne-contro-i-vaccini-parola-del-sottosegretario-alla-salute-gemmato-fdi/ on Tue, 15 Nov 2022 12:49:47 +0000.