An anti-covid vaccine, a year ago at the Inmi Spallanzani in Rome the first doses were administered to a group of five health workers. Among them also the biologist Maria Rosaria Capobianchi: “I was proud to be among the top five Italians vaccinated – she tells time.news Salute – it was the signal that they were coming out of the nightmare. 2020 was a horrible year and 2021 is not without challenges, now we are reliving the wave of terror of the increase in infections as it happened a year ago. But we have a formidable weapon: the vaccine. “
Today Capobianchi is retired, but she was instrumental in her laboratory at Spallanzani to give the first answers by sequencing Sars-Cov-2. “The vaccine is essential today and I see that Italians are responding also on the third dose – he observes – but we must not forget that we need the social measures we know well, wearing a mask and spacing, and then the time has come to update the vaccines to a situation that is constantly changing. Omicron will not be the latest variant, and we must have new, updated vaccines. ” On the choice of imposing a lockdown only on the unvaccinated, Capobianchi brakes: “These are severe measures and it is politics that must take responsibility and decide – highlights the biologist – in Germany this tool has worked, but I think it depends a lot on the sensitivity of the population. In Italy we question everything and it is not easy to impose drastic measures “.