The mandatory nature of the anti-covid vaccination causes the scientific world to debate.
“I would make the anti-Covid vaccine mandatory only when it is clear that the vaccinated person is no longer contagious to others, that is, that the vaccine guarantees both the vaccine and those who have not yet had the dose”. The president of the Board of Bioethics Maurizio Mori told ANSA, “In this phase – he added – we must be flexible, insisting on the obligation would end up causing only a few shields. This is a moment in which greater clarity is needed, make people understand that if the vaccine is safe, it is in the interest of both the individual and the community. ” “I would be quite cautious with respect to the hypothesis of the compulsory nature of the anti-Covid vaccine: I believe that ethically, requiring medical treatment must absolutely represent an exception “. The president del National Bioethics Committee (CNB) Lorenzo D’Avack, underlining how, “in this first phase, it is essential to encourage propaganda in favor of vaccination. The obligation should be considered as a last resort”.
“All health care workers, starting with doctors, must be vaccinated against Covid and if they do not want to be vaccinated they must be suspended from service because, in fact, they cannot be suitable for the service they perform “. This is the position expressed to ANSA by Giuseppe Ippolito, scientific director of the National Institute for Infectious Diseases Spallanzani in Rome. That is, Ippolito emphasizes, “of the professional categories that must absolutely be vaccinated; this to protect themselves but also others, for the extended contacts that the same categories must have with the population. Those who do not accept it cannot exercise those certain professions “. For this reason, he explains,” all health professionals cannot exempt themselves from being vaccinated, as they represent sources of risk for others “. Faced with a refusal of anti-Covid vaccination, concludes the scientific director of Spallanzani, “they should be suspended from service, as they are not suitable for its performance”.
And here is the first case. A disciplinary sanction for disseminating denial theories on the pandemic on the web. This is what the ASL To4 decided against Giuseppe Delicati, family doctor with office in Borgaro, in the Turin area. In a video, the doctor raised strong doubts about the existence of the pandemic and the effectiveness of the flu vaccine, citing unspecified sources from the Pentagon. After the investigation by the Ivrea prosecutor for procured alarm and reporting to the medical order, the ASL has ordered the disciplinary sanction which consists in the reduction of salary “to the extent of 20% for 5 months five” starting from 31 December .
Meanwhile, only two out of ten operators in the 85 rsa of Pavia are willing to be vaccinated against Covid, a low figure that worries the Ats and not a little. “We must fully grasp the importance of this vaccine and nursing home operators cannot escape this”, the general director of Ats Mara Azzi told the Province of Pavia. “It is unthinkable – he added – that only 20% of RSA operators want to protect themselves against the virus. When one is in contact day and night with elderly and frail people, there are conditions for thinking that a real obligation weighs on them “.
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