“It is not the school that drives the contagion and the Cts he has already emphasized this many times in the past. Of course, it is true that he has not recently expressed himself, after all we only give opinions on questions that are placed there “. Donato Greco, infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist, member of the Technical-scientific committee, in an interview with Republic seeks to extinguish the controversy over the failure to consult the body – invoked by the Venetian president Luca Zaia – regarding the restart of schools. And remember that in the past “the CTS has embraced the government’s line, to do everything possible to keep schools open. And out of 59 meetings, we 10 members have always achieved in the end unanimity. It is not cheap “. Another member of the Committee of the same opinion, Fabio Ciciliano, which al Courier service he says that school “is better reopen it immediately in order not to risk that it will remain closed until February “, since” the current epidemiological picture is probably better than that of the end of January when a growth in infections is expected “. The infectious disease specialist, on the other hand, has the opposite opinion Massimo Galli, according to which “this thing about going back to school now is imprudent and unjustified in a situation where we cannot afford it”.
Greco, the scientist who led Prevention of both the Higher Institute of Health and the Ministry of Health, recalls that the infections this year exploded after the closure of the institutes, so “the school suspension was irrelevant”. Will the data get worse with the return to class? “There may be more contagion but in part they will be due to this frenzy of school screening, those made with the salivary, scientifically you’re stupid“Says Greco. “The vaccination obligation? It was a defeat, the citizens should have joined all of their will But at this point there was no other way ”. Having limited it to the over 50s “is enough to stem the hospital pressure, not the spread of the virus “. Professor Galli, on the opposite side, argues for the need for a period in distance learning. “The word Dad is now a dirty word, nobody wants to go back,” he explained in recent days. “However, we need to consider what can be done to reopen the school safely in this phase of the pandemic. And above all that a large vaccination campaign for the little ones is launched. And if that takes a week or 15 days of classes, that can be recovered subsequently, it is not a tragedy. I do not deny that I am worried about returning to the classrooms ”.
Also opposed to going back to class Walter Ricciardi, consultant of the Ministry of Health and full professor of Hygiene at the Catholic University of Rome. “Decisions are not being made based on scientific evidence. This will not stop the pandemic. And the schools they will close de facto, because with the infections in the classroom distance teaching will start ”, he says in an interview with Messenger. But, he adds, “there is not only a problem of reopening schools: on the whole, the measures taken are not based on the scientific evidence to which we wanted to derogate. And this is dangerous, the situation is explosive. With Omicron we cannot afford to circulate false negatives. It was necessary to apply the obligation of the Super green pass, obtained only with the vaccine or with the overcoming of the infection, to all activities. All. And the obligation to vaccinate only for those over 50 is not enough “.