“Deaths up by 20% for the third week, take action”: towards a Super Green pass in December

"For the third consecutive week we record a 20% increase in the mortality figure for Covid. It is the vast majority of unvaccinated, whose average age drops to about 60 years. At the third week, which is ongoing and confirms these numbers, this trend becomes a trend ".

This is what Amerigo Cicchetti, director of Altems, the High School of Economics and Management of Health Systems of the Catholic University of Rome, affirms. According to Cicchetti, to reverse the trend it is necessary to "intervene immediately" and the first measure is to "strongly encourage third doses, even by reopening the hubs of the metropolises that have just closed".

In short, intervene now “because the cases could grow further”. But how?

The interventions, Cicchetti underlines, "can be multiple, more or less aggressive, but the decision is more political than technical. The most aggressive intervention is the lockdown and the return to the black bands, the less aggressive interventions instead start from hypothesizing for example, a doubling of the limitations depending on the vaccination made. The idea of the German green pass 2g, for those recovered and vaccinated, could be somewhere in between ". The other way, he notes, "is that of compulsory vaccination".

However, concludes Cicchetti, "the vaccination obligation tout court I would keep it as a last option because it risks greatly exacerbating the positions, while it is preferable to create incentives with differentiated green passes to create a strong push for vaccination. The obligation can instead be expanded. only for some categories ".

THE REGIONS - And it is precisely that of the double track of the Green pass the line that the governors also espouse, as stated by the president of the Conference Massimiliano Fedriga: "We will propose to the government to choose as soon as possible the measures that can favor vaccinations, guaranteeing in in case of passage of the zone the possibility of overcoming those restrictions for people who have been vaccinated ", thus trying to" convince even the last undecided ", and" give certainty to businesses ".

"No discrimination", specifies the governor of Friuli: "If we do not intervene, the result is that if a Region passes into the orange or red zone it is closed for everyone, it is not that it does not close for anyone. It is a measure that opens a little 'more. The alternative is to close for everyone regardless. We are not talking about excluding someone, but to those who have a lower propensity to risk hospitalization we say' you can do a few more things' ".

THE SUPER GREEN PASS - Minister Brunetta said that we are moving towards a "Super Green pass" in December.

The government's intention is to trigger, starting from the yellow zone onwards, a double track of the Green pass. Only vaccinated and cured will have access to bars, restaurants, stadiums, cinemas, concerts, places of culture, gyms. The current certificate, which can also be obtained with a swab, would remain for the job.

At the moment there is no hypothesis to foresee the obligation of certification also for public means of transport such as buses and metro, the Ministry of Infrastructure said.

(Unioneonline / L)