Schools, all adults must be vaccinated. Burioni’s advice
"The vaccine does not stop the infection but provides, if used in a sufficiently widespread manner, an effective community immunity". Roberto Burioni's post taken from his Facebook profile
The vaccine does not stop the infection but provides, if used in a sufficiently widespread manner, an effective community immunity. So to protect our children, in view of the reopening of schools, we must vaccinate all adults.
Let's see the data that demonstrate what I have just written to you.
In the United States there is still a high circulation of Covid-19, and the vaccination coverage of the different states is very different. They range from 68% in Vermont to 39% in Alabama, Wyoming and Mississippi ( NYT data).
The CDC researchers divided the states into four groups: those who vaccinated the most, those who vaccinated a little less (second highest), those who vaccinated much less (second lowest), and those who vaccinated less than all (lowest). Then they went to see in these states how many children (and young people under 17) arrived in the emergency room with Covid-19 and how many were hospitalized.
The results were crystal clear: the fewer adults get vaccinated, the more children end up in hospital. In states where children are vaccinated less, children end up in hospital almost FOUR TIMES more than in those where they are vaccinated more.
Therefore, those who do not get vaccinated not only put themselves at risk, not only put the whole community at risk, but also put children at risk, making it more likely that this school year may not take place regularly.
Science says something irrefutable, which cannot be denied.
Vaccines are safe, they are extremely effective (at the moment) not only in protecting the individual, but also in decreasing the circulation of the virus in children who cannot be vaccinated. In other words, as President Mattarella said yesterday, science tells us that those who do not get vaccinated harm not only themselves but also others.
It is therefore crucial to achieve the highest possible coverage. How to get there is a political question. But there is no doubt that this must be done, otherwise not only us but also our children will get involved.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/sanita/scuole-perche-si-devono-vaccinare-tutti-gli-adulti-parola-di-burioni/ on Tue, 07 Sep 2021 07:24:04 +0000.