The Covid vaccine protects, while the tampon does not. To highlight this is Silvio Brusaferro, president of the Higher Institute of Health, in relation to a question about how some political forces in the context of the Green pass, would push more on the use of the test rather than immunization. “The vaccine is a tool that stimulates our immune system and makes us develop a protection, antibodies that somehow make it possible that if we come into contact with the virus, the probability of infection is reduced and the risk of it turning into a important pathology “explains Brusaferro in the context of the press conference on the analysis of the data of the regional monitoring of the control room. “The swab is none of this, it is a test that is valid when it is performed, it is a certification and not a protection. There is no equivalence“.” The person who swabs is not protected – the president Issued pointed out – but simply, with a negative result, he is certain that when he took the test he did not harbor the virus “in his body.
Average age of infections
“The average age of cases falls among young people, 37 years“says Brusaferro.” And this tells us that somehow they are less involved while progressively “the virus” affects all ages. The age at admission is around 60 years (59 years), around 63 that of admission to intensive care and that of death is quite high “.
Vaccination campaign
“There is a great adhesion in a very short time” to the vaccination campaign “of the 20-29 age group which is almost 79% with the first dose and 65% for the double dose. Even children between 12-19 years old they are already 62-63% with the first dose. There are still some age groups over 50 who grow more slowly, they are age groups where the possibility of having complications if you contract an infection is higher “.
Indice Rt
“The point Rt index is below the value of 1 (0.91) and this is an important element because it shows us how substantially we are below the maintenance number and we are going to decrease “says the president of the Higher Institute of Health.” The index projected as of August 31 is at 0.79 so there is a transmissibility that decreases. The transmission rate at the hospital level is also below the threshold of 1 and this means that we expect a decrease in these cases as well “.